“Vastness and Profundity”: Sublimity and Religion in Post-1960 Science Fiction
Scholars have often struggled to define the boundaries between sublime and religious experiences, but research tends to agree that sublimity is rational while religious experience is non-rational. However, this view receives a challenge from key texts in science fiction. In the texts I examine, cont...
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2024
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Religion and the arts
Year: 2024, Volume: 28, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 196-219 |
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Arthur C. Clarke
B Sublime B Religion B Aesthetics B Octavia E. Butler B Liu Cixin B Robert A. Heinlein B Science Fiction |
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