Category Archives: science fiction

TOR.com: J.J. Abrams and the Homogenization of Geek Pop

January 30th, 2013 | Posted in geek cultures, science fiction, Star Trek, Star Wars

Many fans enjoyed J.J. Abrams work on revisioning Star Trek with his 2009 film and thereby rebooting the franchise. Others, such as myself, were not so pleased with the efforts. After Disney purchased the Star Wars franchise from George Lucas it announced plans for a new film, and the search for a director began. After […]

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Call for Papers: Current Research in Speculative Fiction (CRSF) Conference

January 30th, 2013 | Posted in call for papers, conference, fantasy, horror, science fiction

Current Research in Speculative Fiction (CRSF) Conference Monday 17th June 2013 at the University of Liverpool Keynote Lectures from: Pat Cadigan (Double Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning Author) and Dr. Peter Wright (Edge Hill University) Now in its third year, CRSF is a one day postgraduate conference designed to promote the research of speculative fictions, including […]

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Review of The Theology of Battlestar Galactica at Colloquium

December 16th, 2012 | Posted in Battlestar Galactica, science fiction, theology

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 […]

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Science Fiction and the Bible Workshop

December 2nd, 2012 | Posted in call for papers, science fiction

From the European Association of Biblical Studies, an announcement and call for papers on science fiction and the Bible. Thanks to James McGrath of Exploring Our Matrix for making me aware of this. This workshop invites papers which engage with the possibilities of discussing the Bible informed by Science Fiction (SF). Proposals for papers are […]

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TheoFantastique quoted in academic volume

November 28th, 2012 | Posted in digital technologies, sacred, scholarship, science fiction, self

While doing some research online yesterday I discovered that TheoFantastique was quoted in an academic volume. The book is Religions of Modernity: Relocating the Sacred to the Self and the Digital (Brill, 2010), edited by Stef Aupers and Dick Houtman. This volume references TheoFantastique (read it at Google Books) and quotes from an interview with […]

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Star Wars as Medieval Religious Art

October 19th, 2012 | Posted in art, religion, science fiction, Star Wars

I recently came across a link to some art by Chey Chao that took Star Wars and framed it in the context of Medieval art. Not only is the art interesting, but since Star Wars drew heavily from various mythological sources, has become a mythology in its own right, and provides the basis for the […]

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Science Fiction and “Big Theogical Questions”

October 14th, 2012 | Posted in science fiction, Star Trek, theological reflection, theology

James McGrath of the blog Exploring Our Matrix recently brought an item to my attention from i09, a post by Charlie Jane Anders titled “Big Theological Questions that Science Fiction Should Answer.” The essay notes that science fiction frequently addresses theological questions, but suggests a different series of questions that are largely unexplored. This piece […]

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Emily McAvan and The Postmodern Sacred

October 11th, 2012 | Posted in fantasy, postmodernism, sacred, science fiction, spirituality

This is a volume I’ve been looking forward to. I enjoyed Emily McAvan’s thesis, summarized in an issue of the Journal of Religion and Popular Culture, and have referenced it in this blog’s About TheoFantastique page. MacAvan is one of a number of exciting women scholars working in religion and pop culture, such as Danielle […]

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Roddenberry and Dick: Competing visions and our future

September 29th, 2012 | Posted in dystopia, science fiction, Star Trek, utopia

In a recent film review of the new science fiction film Looper, James Pinkerton raised important questions related to science fiction and our utopian vision. In his essay “What ‘Looper’ tells us about the American vision,” Pinkerton opens his piece with the following thought provoking paragraph: Which science-fiction scenario better describes the future: “Star Trek” […]

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Star Trek: The Next Generation 25th Anniversary

September 28th, 2012 | Posted in science fiction, Star Trek

TheoFantastique wishes Star Trek: The Next Generation a very happy 25th anniversary.

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