Excellent analysis of anti-institutional practices that offer a mix-and-match spirituality for an increasing number of people disillusioned by traditional religious institutions. The author takes a look at how internet fandoms, wellness culture, the magic resistance, sexual utopias, and other communities provide a sense of meaning, purpose, community by shifting the focus to the individual – and often making a nice profit out of it. 

The core ideas in these practices are not new in America, as the author diligently points out. However, the internet is allowing new communities to emerge and easily connect in new ways, across borders. While traditional religious institutions are losing their appeal among the younger generation, we have a number of emerging anti-institutional doctrines for a godless world that are proving to be an appealing alternative among different demographics: from the techno-utopian dream of humans evolving into efficient machines, the social justice utopia of human freedom, to various alt-right visions of submitting to some innate political or biological truths, often with violent and deadly consequences. Overall, the book offers an interesting perspective of emerging spiritual practices, influential internet-native communities and cultures, and their origins in recent American history.