Science Fiction and the Ideological Definition of Religion
According to William Sims Bainbridge science fiction serves an ideological purpose. In this paper I take this premise and re-frame it in the terms of philosophical phenomenology of Edmund Husserl and Max Scheler to argue that science fiction promotes a "science" ideology. Specifically, it...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Equinox
[2016]
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Implicit religion
Year: 2016, Volume: 19, Issue: 4, Pages: 525-551 |
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Bainbridge, William G. 1925-
/ Science fiction
/ Religion
/ Definition
/ Ideology
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Phenomenology
B BAINBRIDGE, William Sims, 1940- B RUSSELL, Mary Doria, 1950- B Ideology B Religion B Science Fiction |
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| Summary: | According to William Sims Bainbridge science fiction serves an ideological purpose. In this paper I take this premise and re-frame it in the terms of philosophical phenomenology of Edmund Husserl and Max Scheler to argue that science fiction promotes a "science" ideology. Specifically, it promotes a particular mode of naturalization: making the person "fit" within their life-world. It does this by using the perceived culture war between "science" and "religion" as a framing device to throw the former into sharper contrast. Contra Stephen Hrotic, I argue the changing perceptions of religion in science fiction have not become more tolerant but reflect changes in the "scientific" mode of naturalization. To demonstrate this I will look at two key case studies: James Blish's A Case of Conscience and Mary Doria Russell's The Sparrow. |
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| ISSN: | 1743-1697 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Implicit religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1558/imre.31025 |