These goals and passions come in many forms: a particular aesthetic, volunteering, raising their children, pursuits of decadent carnal pleasures, education, professional success, learning a skill, hobbies, political engagement, etc.

That is, there is no uniform way to define being "active" in the CoS.

In this way, they mirror Paul Heelas's definition of self-religions, where insight and improvement of the perceived "true" self is paramount. Here, organized around a (loose-ish) "Satanic" identity.

Ok. Pizza’s here. Class dismissed.

Stay tuned for my next academic existential crisis publicly unfolding on twitter, which I treat by narrowing in on something I *can* control.

Fin