Religion’s Future and the Future’s Religions Through the Lens of Science Fiction

If you have $1,200 to spare, you might be interested in this forthcoming multi-volume work, to which I contributed the chapter “Religion’s Future and the Future’s Religions Through the Lens of Science Fiction.” In fact, it is available for pre-order on Amazon.com for a mere (!) $874.32.

Considering that it is five volumes, less than $875 for 3932 pages with 869 illustrations is actually not quite as outlandish as it first sounds, at least not when compared with other academic volumes. Although I still laugh less at the price of the Handbook for the Study of the Historical Jesus than at the idea that anyone thinks a work of some 3,300 pages, with four volumes in one, should be called a “handbook.”

The work’s title is The Changing World Religion Map: Sacred Places, Identities, Practices and Politics. It is published by Springer and should be in print before the end of the year.