Future-Day Saints: Abrahamic Astronomy, Anthropological Futures, and Speculative Religion
In the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, there is an intense interest in creating “speculative fiction”, including speculative fiction about outer space. This article ties this interest to a broader tradition of “speculative religion” by discussing the Mormon Transhumanist Association. An...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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[2020]
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Religions
Year: 2020, Volume: 11, Issue: 11 |
Further subjects: | B
speculative religion
B folk astronomy B Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints B religious transhumanism B Outer space B anthropology of time B Kolob |
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Summary: | In the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, there is an intense interest in creating “speculative fiction”, including speculative fiction about outer space. This article ties this interest to a broader tradition of “speculative religion” by discussing the Mormon Transhumanist Association. An interest in outer space is linked to nineteenth and twentieth-century speculation by Mormon intellectuals and Church leaders regarding “Abrahamic Astronomy”. The article suggests that there is a Mormon view of the future as informed by a fractal or recursive past that social science in general, and anthropology in particular, could use in “thinking the future”. |
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ISSN: | 2077-1444 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Religions
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3390/rel11110612 |