{"product_id":"theology-and-westworld-9781978707955","title":"Theology and Westworld","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the first two seasons of the HBO series Westworld, human guests pay exorbitant fees to spend time among cybernetic Hosts—partially sentient AI robots—and live out often violent fantasies. In Theology and Westworld, scholars from a range of disciplines within religious studies examine the profound questions that arise when the narrative of Westworld interacts with the study of religion. From transhumanism and personhood to morality and divinity, this book contributes to, confounds, and challenges ideas that are found in the study of religion and philosophy. Taken together, the chapters further our understanding of what it means to live in a world where the hard questions of human existence are explored through the medium of popular culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1 Consuming Westworld: Facilitating the Robotics and AI Discussion through Science Fiction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJaime Wright\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2 Techno-Transcendence and Artificial Rapture\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOlivia Belton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3 For the Rest of Time They Heard the Drum\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJacob Boss\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4 A Comparative Inquiry into the Real\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKristin Johnston Largen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5 Will Robots Too Be in the Image of God? Artificial Consciousness and Imago Dei in Westworld\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMarius Dorobantu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6 On Idolatry and Empathy: An Orthodox Christian Response to the Victimization Fantasies of Westworld\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDavid K. Goodin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7 Rethinking the Maze: Africana Religions, Somatic Memory, and the Journey to Consciousness\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmanda Furiasse\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8 Exile, the Remnant, and a Promised Land without a God\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKevin J. Wetmore, Jr.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9 “And behold, a black horse”: Heaven, Hell, and Biblical Eschatology in Westworld\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTony Degouveia","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51043436069207,"sku":"9781978707955","price":69.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781978707955.jpg?v=1750958224","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/theology-and-westworld-9781978707955","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}