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The Esoteric Theology of Philip K. Dick.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture.
- Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popular culture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (265 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2026.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis, Minnesota : Fortress Academic, 2026.
- System Details:
- text file rdaft
- Summary:
- Drawing on various scholarly and theological perspectives, the book explores the significance of Philip K. Dick's esoteric Christian theology and his singular mystical gnosis.
- Contents:
- Introduction Section I: Foundations of Esoteric Theology Chapter One: This is the Gospel of Philip K. Dick: A Self-Referential Science Fiction Theology, Riccardo Gramantieri Chapter Two: The Conquest of Death and the Divine Afterlife: Philip K. Dick’s Life and Fiction of the 1960s, M. Blake Wilson Chapter Three: Consuming Communion: Transcendence, Moral Clarity, and Community in The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Justin Cosner Chapter Four: When the Dickian Time Drives on, Laying Bare the Ubik Landscape: Ubik as Philip K. Dick's Early Exploration of God before his 2-3-74 Mystical Experience, Laurie Jui-hua Tseng Section II: Theological Themes Chapter Five: Groove Override: The Defeat of Heimarmene in Dick’s “Exegesis”, Gabriel Mckee Chapter Six: What is Human: Humanism in Philip K. Dick’s Do Android Dream of Electric Sheep?, Maxwell E. Stevenson Chapter Seven: A Structure of Belief: The Function of Conspiracy in A Scanner Darkly, Richard Johnston Jones Section III: Who Do You Say That I Am? Chapter Eight: Do Elohim Dream of Spirit Sheep?, Joshua Snell Chapter Nine: The VALIS Confession: Esoteric Compassion and the Struggle for Recognition, Scott Maybell Section IV: The Freedom of the Logos Chapter Ten: Do Dictators Dream of Listless Grasshoppers?: Counter-Totalitarianism, Exceptionality, and a Materialized Political Radicalism, John C. McDowell Chapter Eleven: “I Gotta Figure This Out”: Philip K. Dick, Calvinism, and the Hermeneutics of Spielberg’s Minority Report, Stephen Daly Chapter Twelve: Fabulations of Theory, Aaron French Conclusion: Disclosure of the Worlds to Come About the Contributors
- ISBN:
- 1-9787-4922-8
- 1-9787-7223-8
- 979-82-16-20153-3
- 9781978772236
- OCLC:
- 1561542956
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