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This book explores the provocative religious and philosophical questions that arise in the HBO series Westworld. Utilizing a variety of hermeneutical lenses, the contributors examine themes of personhood, free will, ethics of technology, divine creation, biblical parallels, and other topics.
List of contents
Chapter 1 Consuming Westworld: Facilitating the Robotics and AI Discussion through Science Fiction
Jaime Wright
Chapter 2 Techno-Transcendence and Artificial Rapture
Olivia Belton
Chapter 3 For the Rest of Time They Heard the Drum
Jacob Boss
Chapter 4 A Comparative Inquiry into the Real
Kristin Johnston Largen
Chapter 5 Will Robots Too Be in the Image of God? Artificial Consciousness and Imago Dei in Westworld
Marius Dorobantu
Chapter 6 On Idolatry and Empathy: An Orthodox Christian Response to the Victimization Fantasies of Westworld
David K. Goodin
Chapter 7 Rethinking the Maze: Africana Religions, Somatic Memory, and the Journey to Consciousness
Amanda Furiasse
Chapter 8 Exile, the Remnant, and a Promised Land without a God
Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.
Chapter 9 "And behold, a black horse": Heaven, Hell, and Biblical Eschatology in Westworld
Tony Degouveia
About the author
Edited by Juli Gittinger and Shayna Sheinfeld - Contributions by Olivia Belton; Jacob Boss; Tony Degouveia; Marius Dorobantu; Amanda Furiasse; David K. Goodin; Kristin Johnston Largen; Kevin J. Wetmore Jr. and Jaime Wright
Summary
This book explores the provocative religious and philosophical questions that arise in the HBO series Westworld. Utilizing a variety of hermeneutical lenses, the contributors examine themes of personhood, free will, ethics of technology, divine creation, biblical parallels, and other topics.
