My review of Kevin Wetmore’s The Theology of Battlestar Galactica: American Christianity in the 2004-2009 Television Series (McFarland, 2012) has been accepted for publication in Colloquium: The Australian and New Zealand Theological Review. The review will be published in issue 45, no. 2 in November 2013. A copy is available on my Academia.edu page. Here is an excerpt:
Battlestar Galactica incorporated a number of religious and theological elements. In his analysis, Wetmore devotes the first section of his work to summarizing and systematizing the theologies of the primary groups in the series: the humans; the Cylons, mechanized beings that look human; and “the Baltar cult” (17), a sect that arose around one of the major figures in the series. Wetmore is ambitious in this endeavor, in that he has sifted through several seasons worth of television, incorporating a methodology that is “hermeneutical and analytical and correlation[al]” (18), in order to discern the various expressions of beliefs, rituals, and other practices. Wetmore recognizes that these are “invented theologies” (18), but they are nevertheless helpful as they are considered in contrast with religious and theological constructs outside this fictional universe.
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