Blurring the Boundaries of Religion and Popular Culture provides a fresh, useful approach to rethinking how we might explore religious ideas in popular and speculative fiction texts, transmuting an initial reading into a real encounter through clear, demonstrated strategies. The individual chapters provide a great foundation for ways of reading as well as models for how other speculative fiction texts might be approached using the helpful ideas of implicit theology and secular spirituality.

Edward Ardeneaux IV, Associate Professor of English, University of the Ozarks, USA

Adroit, intriguing, and at times brilliant, Blurring the Boundaries invites readers to consider the alchemical processes of religious imagination in the stories we tell about possible futures and what these stories mean for our lives together in the here and now. Its accessible style, attention to pedagogy, and contemporary subject matter make it appealing as a companion guide for interpreting and teaching religious themes in popular genres.

Jill DeTemple, Chair of Religious Studies, Southern Methodist University, USA