Religion in Science Fiction
Subtitle: The Evolution of an Idea and the Extinction of a Genre
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781472533555
Subjects: Science fiction; Fiction, religious aspects
Description: "This book teaches you not only about the important role writers of science fiction play in leading us to novel insights into religion, but also about the relationship between scientific and religious approaches to the world-and especially the usefulness of cognitive science in explaining the life of the imagination. -- E. Thomas Lawson, Editor, Journal of Cognition and Culture A delightful read that fills a much needed gap in the study of religion's occasionally ambiguous relationship with science fiction. Hrotic takes us on a lovely ride through a wide variety of imagined futures. Highly recommended. -- Douglas E. Cowan, Professor of Religious Studies and Social Development Studies, Renison University College at University of Waterloo, Canada I started reading Religion in Science Fiction with the intention to review it -- and ended up just devouring the book. Hrotic's study is a learned, intelligent, often original, and highly readable contribution to research; in short: unputdownable. -- Susanne Bach, Department for English and American Studies, University Kassel, Germany Religion is a major preoccupation of science fiction, though this has not always been acknowledged. Steve Hrotic has constructed a persuasive narrative about the different ways in which genre SF writers have approached religion, considered primarily as a special type of social system. -- Rowland Wymer, Professor of English, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK"--Bloomsbury Publishing.