Fluid Selfhood, Human and Otherwise: Hindu and Buddhist Themes in Science Fiction

Science fiction has creatively imagined future and alternative worlds in which Hindu and Buddhist concepts figure prominently. Rebirth is a particularly rich idea, manifested both literally and metaphorically in the literary works considered here. The distinctive Indie understandings of human consci...

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Main Author: Sullivan, Bruce Millen (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Equinox [2014]
In: Implicit religion
Year: 2014, Volume: 17, Issue: 4, Pages: 489-508
Further subjects:B Rebirth
B Artificial Intelligence
B HINDUISM in literature
B Hinduism
B Kim Stanley Robinson
B Implicit Religion
B Science Fiction
B MENON, Anil
B ARTIFICIAL intelligence in literature
B Niranjan Sinha
B Buddhism
B Anil Menon
B Buddhism in literature
B Reincarnation
B Roger Zelazny
B RELIGION & literature
B REINCARNATION; Buddhism
B Ian McDonald
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