Time and Relative Dimensions in Faith: Contents

Time and Relative Dimensions in Faith: Contents

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

Contents
Acknowledgements
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Andrew Crome, Introduction
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  1. Courtland Lewis, โ€˜Why Time Lords do not live foreverโ€™
  2. Gabriel McKee, โ€˜Pushing the Protest Button:ย Doctor Whoโ€™s Anti-Authoritarian Ethicโ€™
  3. Kenneth Jason Wardley:ย โ€˜Divine andย Human Nature: incarnation and kenosis inย Doctor Whoโ€™
  4. Tim Jones, โ€˜Breaking the Faiths in โ€œThe Curse of Fenricโ€ย and โ€˜The God Complexโ€โ€™
  5. Michael Charlton, โ€˜The Doctor Working on Godโ€™s Time: Kairos and Intervention in โ€œThe Waters of Marsโ€ย and โ€œA Christmas Carolโ€โ€™
  6. Brigid Cherry, โ€˜โ€œYouโ€™re this Doctorโ€™s companion. What exactly do you do for him? Why does he need you?โ€:ย Doctor Who, Liminality and Martha the Apostleโ€™
  7. Laura Brekke โ€œHumany-Wumanyโ€: Humanity vs. Human inDoctor Who
  8. Jennifer L. Miller, โ€˜The Monstrous and the Divine inย Doctor Who: The Role of Christian Imagery in Russell T. Daviesโ€™sย Doctor Whoย Revivalโ€™
  9. John Vohlidka, โ€˜โ€œWith proof, you donโ€™t have to believeโ€:ย Doctor Whoย and the Celestialsโ€™
  10. Kieran Tranter, โ€˜โ€œHer Brain was full of Superstitious Nonsenseโ€: Modernism and the Failure of the Divine inย Doctor Whoโ€™
  11. Karma Waltonen, โ€œReligion inย Doctor Who: Cult Ethicsโ€
  12. David Johnson, โ€˜Mediating Between the Scientific and the Spiritual inย Doctor Whoโ€™
  13. Kristine Larsen, โ€˜Karma, Conditionality, and Clinging to the Self: The Tennant Years as Seen Through a Tibetan Buddhist Lensโ€™
  14. Andrew Crome, โ€˜โ€œThere never was a Golden Ageโ€:ย Doctor Whoย and the Apocalypseโ€™
  15. Alexander Cummins, โ€˜Qui Quae Quod:ย Doctor Whoย and the History of Magicโ€™
  16. Marcus Harmes, โ€˜The Church Militant? The Church of England, humanity and the future inย Doctor Whoโ€™
  17. Russell Sandberg, โ€˜Bigger on the Inside? Doctoring the Concept of โ€œReligion or Beliefโ€ under English Lawโ€™
  18. Noel Brown, โ€˜โ€œSomething Woolly and Fuzzyโ€: The Representation of Religion in the Big Finishย Doctor Whoย Audio Adventuresโ€™
  19. Joel Dark, โ€˜Doctoring the Doctor: Midrashic Adventures in Text and Spaceโ€™

James F. McGrath,ย โ€˜Epilogueโ€™

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 (Iโ€™ve put the details of the paper about Doctor Who in bold):
A25-329
Religion and Science Fiction Group and Tibetan and Himalayan Religions Group
Theme:ย Boarding the Maแน‡แธalaโ€™s Gate: An Exploration of Science Fiction Encounters with Buddhism
Scott Mitchell, Institute of Buddhist Studies, Presiding
Monday โ€“ 4:00 PM-6:30 PM
Our panel begins in the early 1940s, the โ€œGolden 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 SFโ€™s 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 โ€œpathsโ€ 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 โ€œvirtual 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 โ€œDoctor 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

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