{"id":14861,"date":"2013-06-10T12:22:36","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T16:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=14861"},"modified":"2013-06-10T12:22:36","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T16:22:36","slug":"time-and-relative-dimensions-in-faith-contents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2013\/06\/time-and-relative-dimensions-in-faith-contents.html","title":{"rendered":"Time and Relative Dimensions in Faith: Contents"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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<\/a>\"\"<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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Time and Relative Dimensions in Faith<\/strong><\/p>\n

Contents<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
Acknowledgements<\/span><\/div>\n
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Andrew Crome, Introduction<\/span><\/div>\n
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  1. Courtland Lewis, \u2018Why Time Lords do not live forever\u2019<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. \"\"<\/a>Gabriel McKee, \u2018Pushing the Protest Button:\u00a0<\/span>Doctor Who<\/em>\u2019s Anti-Authoritarian Ethic\u2019<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Kenneth Jason Wardley:\u00a0<\/span>\u2018<\/span>Divine and\u00a0<\/span>Human Nature<\/em>: incarnation and kenosis in\u00a0<\/span>Doctor Who<\/em>\u2019<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Tim Jones, \u2018Breaking the Faiths in \u201cThe Curse of Fenric\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/em>and \u2018The God Complex\u201d\u2019<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. Michael Charlton, \u2018The Doctor Working on God\u2019s Time: Kairos and Intervention in \u201cThe Waters of Mars\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/em>and \u201cA Christmas Carol\u201d\u2019<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. Brigid Cherry, \u2018\u201cYou\u2019re this Doctor\u2019s companion. What exactly do you do for him? Why does he need you?\u201d:\u00a0<\/span>Doctor Who<\/em>, Liminality and Martha the Apostle\u2019<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. Laura Brekke \u201cHumany-Wumany\u201d: Humanity vs. Human in<\/span>Doctor Who<\/em><\/li>\n
  8. Jennifer L. Miller, \u2018The Monstrous and the Divine in\u00a0<\/span>Doctor Who<\/em>: The Role of Christian Imagery in Russell T. Davies\u2019s\u00a0<\/span>Doctor Who\u00a0<\/em>Revival\u2019<\/span><\/li>\n
  9. John Vohlidka, \u2018\u201cWith proof, you don\u2019t have to believe\u201d:\u00a0<\/span>Doctor Who<\/em>\u00a0and the Celestials\u2019<\/span><\/li>\n
  10. Kieran Tranter, \u2018\u201cHer Brain was full of Superstitious Nonsense\u201d: Modernism and the Failure of the Divine in\u00a0<\/span>Doctor Who<\/em>\u2019<\/span><\/li>\n
  11. Karma Waltonen, \u201cReligion in\u00a0<\/span>Doctor Who<\/em>: Cult Ethics\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
  12. David Johnson, \u2018Mediating Between the Scientific and the Spiritual in\u00a0<\/span>Doctor Who<\/em>\u2019<\/span><\/li>\n
  13. Kristine Larsen, \u2018Karma, Conditionality, and Clinging to the Self: The Tennant Years as Seen Through a Tibetan Buddhist<\/a> Lens\u2019<\/span><\/li>\n
  14. Andrew Crome, \u2018\u201cThere never was a Golden Age\u201d:\u00a0<\/span>Doctor Who<\/em>\u00a0and the Apocalypse\u2019<\/span><\/li>\n
  15. Alexander Cummins, \u2018Qui Quae Quod:<\/span>\u00a0Doctor Who<\/em>\u00a0and the History of Magic\u2019<\/span><\/li>\n
  16. Marcus Harmes, \u2018The Church Militant? The Church of England, humanity and the future in\u00a0<\/span>Doctor Who\u2019<\/em><\/li>\n
  17. Russell Sandberg, \u2018Bigger on the Inside? Doctoring the Concept of \u201cReligion or Belief\u201d under English Law\u2019<\/span><\/li>\n
  18. Noel Brown, \u2018\u201cSomething Woolly and Fuzzy\u201d: The Representation of Religion in the Big Finish\u00a0<\/span>Doctor Who<\/em>\u00a0Audio Adventures\u2019<\/span><\/li>\n
  19. Joel Dark, \u2018Doctoring the Doctor: Midrashic Adventures in Text and Space\u2019<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n

    James F. McGrath,\u00a0\u2018Epilogue\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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    For academics interested in the intersection of Doctor Who and religion, this AAR session scheduled for the annual meeting in November<\/a> will also be of interest (I\u2019ve put the details of the paper about Doctor Who in bold):<\/div>\n
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    A25-329<\/strong><\/div>\n
    Religion and Science Fiction Group and Tibetan and Himalayan Religions Group<\/strong><\/div>\n
    Theme:\u00a0Boarding the Ma\u1e47\u1e0dala\u2019s Gate: An Exploration of Science Fiction Encounters with Buddhism<\/div>\n
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    Scott Mitchell, Institute of Buddhist Studies, Presiding<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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    Monday \u2013 4:00 PM-6:30 PM<\/div>\n
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    Our panel begins in the early 1940s, the \u201cGolden Age\u201d 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 SF\u2019s 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 \u201cpaths\u201d 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 \u201cvirtual Orientalism\u201d (Virtual Orientalism<\/em>, 2011) and (2) complicate stereotypes, misrepresentations and caricatures to forge new ground.<\/div>\n
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