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The Transcendent adventure : studies of religion in science fiction/fantasy
- Title
- The Transcendent adventure : studies of religion in science fiction/fantasy / edited by Robert Reilly.
- Publication
- Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1985.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Reilly, Robert, 1933-
- Description
- x, 266 pages; 22 cm.
- Series Statement
- Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy, 0193-6875 ; no. 12
- Uniform Title
- Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy ; no. 12.
- Subject
- Science fiction, English > History and criticism
- Fantasy fiction, English > History and criticism
- Science fiction, American > History and criticism
- Fantasy fiction, American > History and criticism
- Science fiction > Religious aspects
- Religion and literature > English-speaking countries
- Religion in literature
- Religion in literature
- Fantasy fiction, American
- Fantasy fiction, English
- Religion and literature
- Science fiction, American
- Science fiction, English
- Science fiction > Religious aspects
- Bibliografie
- Englisch
- Fantastische Literatur
- Religion Motiv
- Religion
- Science-Fiction-Literatur
- Science-Fiction
- Aufsatzsammlung
- Fictie
- Science fiction
- Het fantastische
- Godsdienst
- Engels
- English-speaking countries
- Englisch
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Science fiction.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- [Part I. Significances : contexts for critical consideration] -- Religious imagination and imagined religion / Adam J. Frisch and Joseph Martos -- Mind, matter, and magic in fantasy and science fiction / Richard L. Purtill -- Science fiction's harrowing of the heavens / William A. Quinn -- For suffering humanity : the ethics of science in science fiction / Alexander J. Butrym -- [Part II. Dilemmas of paradise : Blish and Lewis] -- The concept of Eden / Andrew J. Burgess -- Augustinian evil in C.S. Lewis's Perelandra / Katherin A. Rogers -- Alien ethics and religion versus fallen mankind / Diane Parkin-Speer -- [Part III. Major Authors : individualized treatments of religion] -- Philip K. Dick's answers to the eternal riddles / Patricia S. Warrick -- From rebellious rationalist to mythmaker and mystic : the religious quest of Philip Jose Farmer / Edgar L. Chapman -- Toward a structural metaphysic : religion in the novels of Frank Herbert / David M. Miller -- The evolution of Doris Lessing's art from a mystical moment to space fiction / Nancy Topping Bazin -- Walter M. Miller's A canticle for Leibowitz as a third testament / Frank David Kievitt -- Up the Empire State Buioding : Satan and King Kong in Walter Tevis's Mockingbird / Martha A. Bartter -- Persian influences in J.R.R. Tolkien's The lord of the rings / Elizabeth M. Allen -- Promethean bound : heroes and gods in Roger Zelazny's science fiction / Joseph V. Francavilla -- [Part IV. Bibliographies] -- A checklist of science fiction/fantasy works containing religious themes or motifs / Robert Reilly, Frank D. McSherry, Jr. and Charles G. Waugh -- Secondary works dealing with religion in science fiction / Robert Reilly.
- ISBN
- 0313230625
- 9780313230622
- LCCN
- 84000542
- OCLC
- ocm10348599
- 10348599
- SCSB-14164629
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library