Theology and westworld / edited by Juli Gittinger, Shayna Sheinfeld.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gittinger, Juli L., editor.

Sheinfeld, Shayna, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Westworld (Television program).

Television programs--Religious aspects.

Television programs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (183 pages)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books : Fortress Academic, [2020]

Summary:

This book explores the provocative religious and philosophical questions that arise in the HBO series Westworld. Utilizing a variety of hermeneutical lenses, the contributors examine themes of personhood, free will, ethics of technology, divine creation, biblical parallels, and other topics.

Contents:

Consuming Westworld: Facilitating the Robotics and AI Discussion through Science Fiction / Jaime Wright

Techno-Transcendence and Artificial Rapture / Olivia Belton

For the Rest of Time They Heard the Drum / Jacob Boss

A Comparative Inquiry into the Real / Kristin Johnston Largen

Will Robots Too Be in the Image of God? Artificial Consciousness and Imago Dei in Westworld / Marius Dorobantu

On Idolatry and Empathy: An Orthodox Christian Response to the Victimization Fantasies of Westworld / David K. Goodin

Rethinking the Maze: Africana Religions, Somatic Memory, and the Journey to Consciousness / Amanda Furiasse

Exile, the Remnant, and a Promised Land without a God / Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.

"And behold, a black horse": Heaven, Hell, and Biblical Eschatology in Westworld / Tony Degouveia.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-9787-0796-7