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Theology and Westworld
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2020
Summary
In the first two seasons of the HBO series Westworld, human guests pay exorbitant fees to spend time among cybernetic Hosts—partially sentient AI robots—and live out often violent fantasies. In Theology and Westworld, scholars from a range of disciplines within religious studies examine the profound questions that arise when the narrative of Westworld interacts with the study of religion. From transhumanism and personhood to morality and divinity, this book contributes to, confounds, and challenges ideas that are found in the study of religion and philosophy. Taken together, the chapters further our understanding of what it means to live in a world where the hard questions of human existence are explored through the medium of popular culture.
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Copyright year
2020
ISBN-Print
978-1-9787-0795-5
ISBN-Online
978-1-9787-0796-2
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
165
Product type
Edited Book
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 4
Chapter One: Consuming Westworld No access Pages 5 - 18
Chapter Two: Techno-Transcendence and Artificial Rapture No access Pages 19 - 36
Chapter Three: For the Rest of Time They Heard the Drum No access Pages 37 - 52
Chapter Four: A Comparative Inquiry into the Real No access Pages 53 - 72
Chapter Five: Will Robots Too Be in the Image of God? No access Pages 73 - 90
Chapter Six: On Idolatry and Empathy No access Pages 91 - 108
Chapter Seven: Rethinking the Maze No access Pages 109 - 126
Chapter Eight: Exile, the Remnant, and a Promised Land without a God No access Pages 127 - 140
Chapter Nine: “And Behold, a Black Horse” No access Pages 141 - 160
Index No access Pages 161 - 162
Editors and Contributors No access Pages 163 - 165
