Ontological Rebellion: The Otherkin Community and the Struggle for Reality

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Joseph Laycock, author of Vampires Today: The Truth About Modern Vampirism, will be delivering a paper (oral lecture) on Otherkin and the Otherkin Community at the annual conference of the Association for the Sociology of Religion (ASR) in San Francisco, CA tomorrow (August 8, 2009).

Association for the Sociology of Religion (ASR) Annual Meeting
August 8-10, 2009 - San Francisco, CA
"Ontological Rebellion: The Otherkin Community and the Struggle for Reality"
Joseph Laycock, Boston University
http://www.sociologyofreligion.com

Vampires Today: The Truth About Modern Vampirism
Joseph Laycock - Praeger Publishers 2009
http://www.amazon.com/Vampires-Today-Truth-Modern-Vampirism/dp/0313364729/ref=sr_1_1
http://www.abc-clio.com/products/overview.aspx?productid=111080&viewid=1

Examples of this writings and blogs may be viewed at Religion Dispatches. 
Note:  While he's a "scholar of religion", he does not argue that "vampirism" or "otherkin" are new religious movements - this is simply his peer audience and disclipline of study backdropped against a broader sociological context.
http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/rdbook/1438/modern_vampires:_your_neighbors_and_spouses