David Bowie: The Making Of A Modern Saint

The article "David Bowie: The Making Of A Modern Saint" by Simon Critchley at The Guardian explores the religious influences in David Bowie's art. It begins with Bowie's experience in the Anglicanism of St Mary’s Church in Bromley, where he sang in the choir, and follows his engagement with Tibetan Buddhism in the late 1960s and the occultism of Aleister Crowley. Ormerod analyzes these religious preoccupations in Bowie's work through compelling prose.