God is change religious practices and ideologies in the works of Octavia Butler
"Octavia Butler's fictional worlds show the potential of religion to connect, heal, or liberate. Contributors explore the bases of these potentials in the many religious traditions Butler draws on, the forms they take in her stories, and the work they do to heal trauma and violence"--
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Philadelphia ; Rome ; Tokyo
Temple University Press
2021
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- Trans-religious world-building: Hindu evocations in Octavia Butler's Lilith's brood Aparajita Nanda God Is change, impermanence is Buddha nature: religious syncretism in Butler's Earthseed and Dōgen's Zen Christopher Kocela Butler's invention of scripture in light of Hebrew wisdom literature Naylor Davis Regarding the other in Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis: toward a post-humanist ethics Mary Grover Parable of the talents as genre criticism and the Holy Spirit of speculative fiction Chuck Robinson "Only actions": ritual and the embodied processing of trauma in Parable of the sower and Parable of the talents Keegan Osinski Migration, spirituality, and restorative spaces: shape-shifting to heal in Octavia Butler's Wild seed Briana Whiteside "We trade the essence of ourselves": West African spirituality in Xenogenesis' Oankali Ebony Gibson The healing and harmful effects of work in Octavia Butler's short stories "Crossover," "The book of Martha," and "Speech sounds" Jennifer L. Hayes Shapers of god: Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the sower and womanist theological practice Tarshia L. Stanley Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis trilogy, Bloodchild and the Androgynous third Alexis Brooks de Vita Erotic pedagogy in Parable of the talents: freedom and community through touch Brianna Thompson Black women's prophesy: O.E. Butler's parables Phyllis L. Burns The violence of making America great again: religion, power, and vulnerable bodies in Octavia Butler's Parable of the talents Michael Brandon McCormack
- Practicing the future together: Earthseed as a tool for black liberation Shelby L. Crosby