I am pleased to be able to share a list of the contributors and chapter titles for the forthcoming book Time and Relative Dimensions in Faith: Religion and Doctor Who:
Time and Relative Dimensions in Faith
ContentsAcknowledgementsยAndrew Crome, Introductionย
- Courtland Lewis, โWhy Time Lords do not live foreverโ
Gabriel McKee, โPushing the Protest Button:ย Doctor Whoโs Anti-Authoritarian Ethicโ
- Kenneth Jason Wardley:ย โDivine andย Human Nature: incarnation and kenosis inย Doctor Whoโ
- Tim Jones, โBreaking the Faiths in โThe Curse of Fenricโย and โThe God Complexโโ
- Michael Charlton, โThe Doctor Working on Godโs Time: Kairos and Intervention in โThe Waters of Marsโย and โA Christmas Carolโโ
- Brigid Cherry, โโYouโre this Doctorโs companion. What exactly do you do for him? Why does he need you?โ:ย Doctor Who, Liminality and Martha the Apostleโ
- Laura Brekke โHumany-Wumanyโ: Humanity vs. Human inDoctor Who
- Jennifer L. Miller, โThe Monstrous and the Divine inย Doctor Who: The Role of Christian Imagery in Russell T. Daviesโsย Doctor Whoย Revivalโ
- John Vohlidka, โโWith proof, you donโt have to believeโ:ย Doctor Whoย and the Celestialsโ
- Kieran Tranter, โโHer Brain was full of Superstitious Nonsenseโ: Modernism and the Failure of the Divine inย Doctor Whoโ
- Karma Waltonen, โReligion inย Doctor Who: Cult Ethicsโ
- David Johnson, โMediating Between the Scientific and the Spiritual inย Doctor Whoโ
- Kristine Larsen, โKarma, Conditionality, and Clinging to the Self: The Tennant Years as Seen Through a Tibetan Buddhist Lensโ
- Andrew Crome, โโThere never was a Golden Ageโ:ย Doctor Whoย and the Apocalypseโ
- Alexander Cummins, โQui Quae Quod:ย Doctor Whoย and the History of Magicโ
- Marcus Harmes, โThe Church Militant? The Church of England, humanity and the future inย Doctor Whoโ
- Russell Sandberg, โBigger on the Inside? Doctoring the Concept of โReligion or Beliefโ under English Lawโ
- Noel Brown, โโSomething Woolly and Fuzzyโ: The Representation of Religion in the Big Finishย Doctor Whoย Audio Adventuresโ
- Joel Dark, โDoctoring the Doctor: Midrashic Adventures in Text and Spaceโ
James F. McGrath,ย โEpilogueโ
For academics interested in the intersection of Doctor Who and religion, this AAR session scheduled for the annual meeting in November will also be of interest (Iโve put the details of the paper about Doctor Who in bold):
A25-329Religion and Science Fiction Group and Tibetan and Himalayan Religions GroupTheme:ย Boarding the Maแนแธalaโs Gate: An Exploration of Science Fiction Encounters with BuddhismScott Mitchell, Institute of Buddhist Studies, Presiding
Monday โ 4:00 PM-6:30 PMOur panel begins in the early 1940s, the โGolden Ageโ of Science Fiction (SF), and moves chronologically through the new millennium, highlighting a work in progress involving the dialogue between SF and Buddhism that is still galaxies far, far, away from completion. We examine SFโs fascination with Buddhism during the 20th century at a time when both British and American middle-class citizens were disenchanted by their surrounding environment and began to explore eastern religions, including Buddhism, as alternative โpathsโ by which they could re-imagine and re-create religious meaning. Within this time period, we analyze several SF visions of Buddhism and Buddhist peoples via three different media, collectively demonstrating instances in which SF authors both (1) partake in the process Iwamura has called โvirtual Orientalismโ (Virtual Orientalism, 2011) and (2) complicate stereotypes, misrepresentations and caricatures to forge new ground.
- Michael Nichols,ย The Doctor and the Demon: Mara in the British Science Fiction Series โDoctor Whoโ
- Joel Gruber,ย The Dharma of Doctor Strange: The Shifting Representations of Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism within a Science Fiction Comic Serial
- Kurtis Schaeffer,ย To Glimpse the Minds of Stars and Nebulae: Tibetan Buddhism in the Science Fiction Novels of Olaf Stapledon
- David Germano,ย Tibet in Mars and Hyperion during the 1990s
- Responding: Alexander Gardner










