Description: "Whether or not religion scholars are interested in fantasy literature, the analysis of affordances in this volume has a number of exciting theoretical implications for the field. I found these insights applicable to horror texts such as The Exorcist, which a number of historians have connected to the resurgence of exorcism and deliverance ministry in the 1970s. There are also important implications for the study of conspiracy theories and what political scientist Michael Barkun called "fact-fiction reversals," in which conspiracy theorists claim that nominally fictional stories are actually true. More broadly, the authors demonstrate that narrative is an incredibly important, yet surprisingly understudied dimension of religious studies. We will likely be reading about affordances again in the future." Joseph P. Laycock, Texas State University

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