ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at the relationship between fiction and religion from the point of view of humorous, offbeat, and critical expressions such as “fake” religions, which have flourished, in particular, thanks to the boom of the digital revolution. Considered as expressions of religious creativity, these religions that are not religions can also be considered as matrices of cultural reinvention, at the intersection of fiction and the sacred. From this point of view, they are products of modernity that have already been studied and characterized according to their relationship to reality and their inclusion in a fiction. Recapturing these debates and the different categories of “fake” (through a few examples chosen for their singularity), this chapter highlights the role of digital technologies in the development and the dynamics of creativity of these movements, on the borders of fiction and technology.
