Parody Religions: From Discordia to the Flying Spaghetti Monster
Transcript of a public lecture delivered in Moscow, 21 March 2026. Good evening. Thank you for spending your Saturday evening on religious studies. Today’s lecture is about the phenomenon of parody religiosity. I should say upfront: I found almost no academic or popular coverage of this topic — neither on YouTube nor anywhere online, in Russian or in English. A few videos on adjacent themes exist, so tonight we are, in some sense, filling a gap. ...