Theology and Westworld
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Theology and Westworld

  1. 177 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Theology and Westworld

About this book

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 profound questions that arise when the narrative of Westworld interacts with the study of religion. From transhumanism and personhood to morality and divinity, this book contributes to, confounds, and challenges ideas that are found in the study of religion and philosophy. Taken together, the chapters further our understanding of what it means to live in a world where the hard questions of human existence are explored through the medium of popular culture.

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Information

Year
2020
eBook ISBN
9781978784079
Edition
1
Subtopic
Television

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Introduction
  4. Chapter One: Consuming Westworld
  5. Chapter Two: Techno-Transcendence and Artificial Rapture
  6. Chapter Three: For the Rest of Time They Heard the Drum
  7. Chapter Four: A Comparative Inquiry into the Real
  8. Chapter Five: Will Robots Too Be in the Image of God?
  9. Chapter Six: On Idolatry and Empathy
  10. Chapter Seven: Rethinking the Maze
  11. Chapter Eight: Exile, the Remnant, and a Promised Land without a God
  12. Chapter Nine: “And Behold, a Black Horse”
  13. Index
  14. Editors and Contributors