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The Final Frontier? Religion and Posthumanism in Film and TV
Graham, Elaine
Graham, Elaine
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2014-10-08
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Whilst science fiction is often considered secular in emphasis, more recently it has started to exhibit a different sensibility. This may reflect wider social and cultural change, and the emergence of a ‘post-secular’ culture, in which new and enduring forms of religiosity co-exist, albeit in certain tension, with secular and atheist world-views. In contrast to the assertion that any future or technologically-advanced world would have no need for religion, are more sympathetic treatments of religious belief and identity. This does not represent the extinction of science fiction’s elevation of scientific enquiry and secular humanist values, however: rather, faith is regarded as both inimical to progress and an inescapable part of what it means to be, and become, fully human.
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Graham, Elaine (2014). The Final Frontier? Religion and Posthumanism in Film and TV. Paper presented to the TRS Research seminar.
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Theology and Religious Studies Research Seminar 2014-15