Ironically, this homogenizing certainty about the spiritual order may contribute to the appeal of Chalion novels to religious believers and skeptics alike.
Nevertheless, this world’s human inhabitants share beliefs about the holy that are confirmed in collectively-shared, even empirically-verifiable experiences.
In her Chalion novels, speculative fiction writer Lois McMaster Bujold creates a world in which Quintarian (five-god) and Quadrarian (four-god) religions compete against the backdrop of older shamanistic practices.
Joel Mayward develops an account of theocinematics as a theology of creation in works by Darren Aronofsky and Terence Malik, while Connie Bahng reads Keum Suk Gendry-Kim's novel *Grass* through Derrida's hauntology to ask what ethical challenges generational trauma confronts us with. What do the limits of representation within speculative and literary writing tell us about the hopes theology invests in representation? Amy Carr contrasts speculative fiction's capacity - via Lois McMaster Bujold - to present a world where religious conflict takes place against a shared background of empirical knowledge with the impossibility of such knowledge in the world we inhabit. Emily Theus asks what happens to theology when it finds itself within unthinkability in the context of climate crisis.
In each, questions of representation and transparency are approached sideways rather than through presumed translatability. Through novels, speculative fiction (and its critics), and cinema these papers expand theological, ethical, and religious archives.
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