Religion/Science/Fiction: Beyond the Final Frontier

Science fiction is conventionally assumed to be hostile to religion. This article argues that science fiction stories not only belie this assumption, but can even promote religious speculation. Science fictions techniques, the intervention by African American and other ethnic minority writers in the...

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1. VerfasserIn: Busto, Rudy V. 1957- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Equinox [2014]
In: Implicit religion
Jahr: 2014, Band: 17, Heft: 4, Seiten: 395-404
weitere Schlagwörter:B STUDY & teaching of science fiction
B MINORITY American literature
B African American authors
B Cognitive Estrangement
B Minority Literature
B Science and religion
B RELIGION & literature
B SCIENCE fiction writing
B Science Fiction
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Zusammenfassung:Science fiction is conventionally assumed to be hostile to religion. This article argues that science fiction stories not only belie this assumption, but can even promote religious speculation. Science fictions techniques, the intervention by African American and other ethnic minority writers in the literature, and the use of science fiction in the college classroom, all call into question any definitive boundary between science and religion.
ISSN:1743-1697
Enthält:Enthalten in: Implicit religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1558/imre.v17i4.395