Science Fiction and the Imitation of the Sacred
Autor Richard Griggen Limba Engleză Paperback – 25 dec 2019
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781350143661
ISBN-10: 1350143669
Pagini: 160
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1350143669
Pagini: 160
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Caracteristici
Presents a new understanding of science fiction's relationship to religion and the sacred, with a special emphasis on secularization
Notă biografică
Richard Grigg is Professor of Theology at Sacred Heart University, USA.
Cuprins
Introduction1. Science Fiction, the Sacred, and the Irony of Technology2. Science Fiction and Ultimate Transformation3. Science Fiction, Participation and Self-Transcendence4. Science Fiction and Ultimate Concern5. Science Fiction and World-Making 6. Science Fiction and ApocalypseConclusionBibliographyIndex
Recenzii
In his past work, Grigg has addressed the "new atheism," suggesting pathways to spirituality outside of organized religion and New Age silliness. Here, he looks to the science fiction genre to show how the form, even as its technology promises to overwhelm humanity, also points to the cosmos and untapped human possibility as bridges to the sacred.
With characteristic clarity and insight, Richard Grigg has written a fascinating book about human nostalgia for a sacred reality that can no longer be readily experienced in a secular age. He argues that this longing for the sacred, muted elsewhere displays itself in works of science fiction. Scholars and students of religion, as well as fans of science fiction, will find much of interest here.
This insightful and probing book offers readers an opportunity to understand and appreciate in new ways what the sacred has meant to human beings in the past, and might mean to us in the future.
This book offers a coherent argument about the different ways in which science fiction can simulate the experience of the sacred which is found in all the major world religions. In doing so, it provides an insight into what some readers and viewers may be unconsciously looking for in science fiction.
With characteristic clarity and insight, Richard Grigg has written a fascinating book about human nostalgia for a sacred reality that can no longer be readily experienced in a secular age. He argues that this longing for the sacred, muted elsewhere displays itself in works of science fiction. Scholars and students of religion, as well as fans of science fiction, will find much of interest here.
This insightful and probing book offers readers an opportunity to understand and appreciate in new ways what the sacred has meant to human beings in the past, and might mean to us in the future.
This book offers a coherent argument about the different ways in which science fiction can simulate the experience of the sacred which is found in all the major world religions. In doing so, it provides an insight into what some readers and viewers may be unconsciously looking for in science fiction.