Theology, Fantasy, and the Imagination (Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture)

Theology, Fantasy, and the Imagination (

📁 Theology, Fantasy, and the Imagination (Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture)

📂 Library 📅 2023 🏛 Fortress Academic 🌐 English

Theology, Fantasy, and the Imagination offers analyses of the theological, philosophical, and religious imagination found in fantasy literature, the theological imagination, and table-top games. Part I offers an invocation to the study through a theological reflection of the “old magic.” Pa

Theology, Religion, and Dystopia (Theolo

📁 Theology, Religion, and Dystopia (Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture)

📂 Library 📅 2022 🏛 Fortress Academic 🌐 English

Dystopia, from the Greek dus and topos “bad place,” is a revelatory genre and concept that has experienced a meteoric rise in popularity at the start of the twenty-first century. This book addresses approaches to the study of dystopia from the academic fields of theology and religious studi

Theology and Westworld (Theology, Religi

📁 Theology and Westworld (Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture)

✍ Juli Gittinger (editor), Shayna Sheinfeld (editor) 📂 Library 📅 2020 🏛 Fortress Academic 🌐 English

In the first two seasons of the HBO series Westworld, human guests pay exorbitant fees to spend time among cybernetic Hosts—partially sentient AI robots—and live out often violent fantasies. In Theology and Westworld, scholars from a range of disciplines within religious studies examine the pr

Theology and Prince (Theology, Religion,

📁 Theology and Prince (Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture)

✍ Jonathan H. Harwell (editor), Rev. Katrina E. Jenkins (editor) 📂 Library 📅 2019 🏛 Fortress Academic 🌐 English

Prince was a spiritual and musical enigma who sought to transcend race and gender through his words, music, and fashion. Raised as a Seventh-Day Adventist and later going door-to-door as a Jehovah’s Witness, he expressed his faith overtly and allegorically, erotically and poetically. Theology

Theology and Westworld (Theology, Religi

📁 Theology and Westworld (Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture)

✍ Juli Gittinger (editor), Shayna Sheinfeld (editor) 📂 Library 📅 2020 🏛 Fortress Academic 🌐 English

In the first two seasons of the HBO series Westworld, human guests pay exorbitant fees to spend time among cybernetic Hosts—partially sentient AI robots—and live out often violent fantasies. In Theology and Westworld, scholars from a range of disciplines within religious studies examine the pr

René Girard, Theology, and Pop Culture (

📁 René Girard, Theology, and Pop Culture (Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture)

📂 Library 📅 2021 🏛 Fortress Academic 🌐 English

In René Girard, Theology, and Popular Culture, fifteen contributors consider how Girard’s mimetic theory can be used to uncover and probe the theological depths of popular culture. Creative and critical engagement with Girard’s theory enables the contributors to offer fresh and exciting int