RT Article
T1 The Speed of Belief: Religion and Science Fiction, an Introduction to the Implicit Religions of Science Fiction
JF Implicit religion
VO 17
IS 4
SP 367
OP 377
A1 Connor, Kimberly Rae 1957-
LA English
PB Equinox
YR 2014
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1690205849
AB This article considers the relationship between religion and literature as refracted through the genre of science fiction writing. Connor explores the possibilities for religions created in the hyphen between "science" and fiction. " Religion and science fiction each offers a conception of reality that inclines toward different explanations not just of human behavior but of divine (supernatural) behavior and each suggests differing ideas about how to respond. Using poetry as an additional literary from for understanding the relationship between religion and sciencefiction literature, Connor explores some of the spaces for the invention and expression of religion in its implicit forms.
K1 BELIEF & doubt in literature
K1 Fantasy fiction
K1 Imagination
K1 PARANORMAL fiction
K1 RELIGION & literature
K1 SCIENCE fiction writing
K1 Belief
K1 Literature
K1 Poetry
K1 Religion
K1 Science Fiction
K1 Supernatural
DO 10.1558/imre.v17i4.367