This call for papers<\/a> came to my attention and seemed worth sharing:<\/p>\n Religious Futurisms: A Call for Papers<\/strong><\/p>\n We are pleased to announce a call for papers for a forthcoming collection of essays on the broad topic of Religious Futurisms, to be edited by Sumeyra Buran Utku and Jim Clarke.<\/p>\n Religious Futurisms derives its intellectual inspiration from the emergence of Afrofuturism and other Alternative Futurisms as ideological and analytical frameworks in recent years. Religious Futurisms can manifest as ideology, criticality, prophecy, futurology, philosophy or artistic practice. They may be discerned in a wide range of forms, ranging from speculative theology to performative videogame interaction to abstract or polysemous imagery in visual art.<\/p>\n Fundamentally global and interdisciplinary in nature, Religious Futurisms encompass not only attempts within theology to reframe and examine faith-based futures, but also the lengthy tradition of revelatory knowledge forms as theme and mode within speculative fiction and other texts and formats of speculative artistic expression, such as film, television, music, gaming, comics, graphic novels, visual and conceptual art, theatre and poetry.<\/p>\n Faith-related themes and narratives have proliferated in speculative fiction since its earliest manifestations, and feature heavily in some of SF\u2019s most popular and influential texts, such as\u00a0Dune, Star Wars\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Battlestar Galactica.\u00a0<\/em>However, Marxist and materialist modes of academic critical analysis have tended to shy away from addressing Religious Futurisms. This volume of essays seeks to address that gap in scholarship.<\/p>\n In this first attempt to codify and taxonomise the various strands and manifestations of Religious Futurism, the editors invite abstracts for essays which address any of the following topics:<\/p>\n Please submit abstracts of no more than 300 words, accompanied by a 100 word bio and affiliation by December 1st 2021. We aim to inform successful contributors by January 31st 2022, and completed drafts of 5,000 \u2013 7,500 words will be required by May 31st 2022.<\/p>\n Abstracts should be emailed to:\u00a0jimgclarke@gmail.com<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0sumeyra19@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n There is more information (with slightly different submission instructions) on Jim Clarke\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n Of related interest:<\/p>\n Gizmodo on what they liked and didn\u2019t about season 4 of\u00a0The Handmaid\u2019s Tale<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n Warped belief in\u00a0The Handmaid\u2019s Tale<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n David Brin on science fiction\u2019s diverse engagements with diversity<\/a><\/p>\n After Christianity, After Religion<\/a> by Diana Butler Bass<\/p>\n Dune updates<\/a><\/p>\n AI\u2019s Future Doesn\u2019t Have to Be Dystopian<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n