Heinlein's novel Stranger In a Strange Land inspired a religious organization, The Church of All Worlds, established 1968 and still active.
You are providing more than enough material for a few enterprising souls to organize an order and a church inspired by the Weird of Hali.
Using the search term "religion based on stranger in a strange land", the first Google entry that came up was a pretty good academic paper on the history of CAW and the relationships between sf/fantasy literature and new religions. Given that one of Heinlein's wives was Wiccan and may have been the inspiration for the witch character in Heinlein's earlier novela Magic, Incorporated, this might not have surprised him.
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churches inspired by fantasy novels
Date: 2023-07-01 07:57 pm (UTC)You are providing more than enough material for a few enterprising souls to organize an order and a church inspired by the Weird of Hali.
Using the search term "religion based on stranger in a strange land", the first Google entry that came up was a pretty good academic paper on the history of CAW and the relationships between sf/fantasy literature and new religions. Given that one of Heinlein's wives was Wiccan and may have been the inspiration for the witch character in Heinlein's earlier novela Magic, Incorporated, this might not have surprised him.