The esoteric theology of Philip K. Dick /
"This volume collects chapters written to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Philip K. Dick's transformative 1974 mystical experiences, through which he ultimately contextualized his influential and posthumously much-adapted science-fiction and speculative fiction. Contributing authors he...
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New York, NY, USA :
Bloomsbury Academic/Fortress Academic,
2026.
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| Series: | Theology, religion, and pop culture.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / George J. Sieg and Michael C. Barros
- This is the Gospel of Philip K. Dick : A Self-Referential Science Fiction Theology / Riccardo Gramantieri
- The Conquest of Death and the Divine Afterlife : Philip K. Dick's Life and Fiction of the 1960s / M. Blake Wilson
- Consuming Communion : Transcendence, Moral Clarity, and Community in The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch / Justin Cosner
- When the Dickian Time Drives on, Laying Bare the Ubik Landscape : Ubik as Philip K. Dick's Early Exploration of God before his 2-3-74 Mystical Experience / Laurie Jui-hua Tseng
- Groove Override : The Defeat of Heimarmene in Dick's "Exegesis" / Gabriel Mckee
- What is Human : Humanism in Philip K. Dick's Do Android Dream of Electric Sheep? / Maxwell E. Stevenson
- Structure of Belief :The Function of Conspiracy in A Scanner Darkly / Richard Johnston Jones
- Do Elohim Dream of Spirit Sheep? / Joshua Snell
- The VALIS Confession : Esoteric Compassion and the Struggle for Recognition / Scott Maybell
- Do Dictators Dream of Listless Grasshoppers?: Counter-Totalitarianism, Exceptionality, and a Materialized Political Radicalism / John C. McDowell
- "I Gotta Figure This Out" : Philip K. Dick, Calvinism, and the Hermeneutics of Spielberg's Minority Report (2002) / Stephen Daly
- Fabulations of Theory / Aaron French
- Conclusion : Disclosure of the Worlds to Come / GeorgeJ. Sieg and Michael C. Barros
- Index
- About the Contributors.