Theology and/or (pop)culture: The religion of Krypton

From the end of the 1930s when superhero comics formally appeared, until the latest film and television interpretations, we have seen the extraordinary influence of characters and symbols, of which the most famous and certainly the most recognizable is Superman with his striking superhuman powers. In this paper we wanted to shed light on the religious imagination of different authors. This provided a basis for an attempt to reconstruct what we would call a spiritual background of the most famous character in the world comics. Providing knowledge about the history, mythology and especially about the religion of the planet Krypton, we dared to analyse Raoism as an ancient religion, with its cultural, theological, organizational and ritual peculiarities.