{"id":2659,"date":"2011-03-03T14:34:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T14:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/03\/robots-rights-and-religion\/"},"modified":"2011-03-03T14:34:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T14:34:00","slug":"robots-rights-and-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/03\/robots-rights-and-religion.html","title":{"rendered":"Robots, Rights and Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>A volume I have edited entitled <em>Religion and Science Fiction<\/em> is forthcoming from Pickwick Publications (Wipf &amp; Stock). The publisher has given the library at Butler University permission to make my chapter, <a href=\"http:\/\/works.bepress.com\/jamesmcgrath\/47\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cRobots, Rights and Religion,\u201d<\/a> available online. I hope you enjoy it. The book is an exciting interdisciplinary volume which should be\u00a0available for purchase\u00a0in the not-too-distant future!<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-7195541189350200485?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A volume I have edited entitled Religion and Science Fiction is forthcoming from Pickwick Publications (Wipf &amp; Stock). 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