Scott Donahue-Martens is a Ph.D. candidate in Homiletics at Boston University School of Theology. Brandon Simonson is an instructor of biblical studies at Boston University School of Theology and adjunct lecturer in the Department of Religious and Theological Studies at Merrimack College.

The editors’ big tent approach to utopian studies and their consideration of the intersection of theology, religion, and dystopia has produced a wide-ranging volume that opens up as many questions about the nature of dystopia and dystopian literature as it answers. In this regard, it provides a welcome and important departure for further considerations of a number of critical questions.

• 1.Dystopia as Demythologized ApocalypticBrandon Simonson and Scott Donahue-Martens2.The Dystopic Relations of Interstellar: A Response from Christian EcotheologyThomas G. Hermans-Webster3.Color-blind Dystopia: The Giver, Theology, Race, and RicoeurScott Donahue-Martens4.Qu(e)erying Posthuman Theologies in Ghost in the ShellAmanda L. Pumphrey and Nicholaus B. Pumphrey5.Social Life from Scratch: Morality, Religion, and Society in The Walking DeadJustin F. Martin6.How NOT to be a Zombie: The Walking Dead and Love for the World David Penn7.Dystopia in the Apocalypse: Religion and Community in Asimov’s Foundation Universe Brandon Simonson8.Katniss, Christos: Sacrifice and Salvation in Scripture and Young Adult Dystopian Novels Shayna Sheinfeld9.Dystopian Festivals, Utopian Fictions: Sovereignty, Sacrifice, and Sanctity in Biblical Jubilee and The PurgeC. J. McCrary10.The Ability or Inability to Change by the Presence or Absence of Deus ex MachinaBea´ta Gombko¨to?11

Scott Donahue-Martens is a Ph.D. candidate in Homiletics at Boston University School of Theology. Brandon Simonson is an instructor of biblical studies at Boston University School of Theology and adjunct lecturer in the Department of Religious and Theological Studies at Merrimack College.

The editors’ big tent approach to utopian studies and their consideration of the intersection of theology, religion, and dystopia has produced a wide-ranging volume that opens up as many questions about the nature of dystopia and dystopian literature as it answers. In this regard, it provides a welcome and important departure for further considerations of a number of critical questions.

• 1.Dystopia as Demythologized ApocalypticBrandon Simonson and Scott Donahue-Martens2.The Dystopic Relations of Interstellar: A Response from Christian EcotheologyThomas G. Hermans-Webster3.Color-blind Dystopia: The Giver, Theology, Race, and RicoeurScott Donahue-Martens4.Qu(e)erying Posthuman Theologies in Ghost in the ShellAmanda L. Pumphrey and Nicholaus B. Pumphrey5.Social Life from Scratch: Morality, Religion, and Society in The Walking DeadJustin F. Martin6.How NOT to be a Zombie: The Walking Dead and Love for the World David Penn7.Dystopia in the Apocalypse: Religion and Community in Asimov’s Foundation Universe Brandon Simonson8.Katniss, Christos: Sacrifice and Salvation in Scripture and Young Adult Dystopian Novels Shayna Sheinfeld9.Dystopian Festivals, Utopian Fictions: Sovereignty, Sacrifice, and Sanctity in Biblical Jubilee and The PurgeC. J. McCrary10.The Ability or Inability to Change by the Presence or Absence of Deus ex MachinaBea´ta Gombko¨to?11

Scott Donahue-Martens is a Ph.D. candidate in Homiletics at Boston University School of Theology. Brandon Simonson is an instructor of biblical studies at Boston University School of Theology and adjunct lecturer in the Department of Religious and Theological Studies at Merrimack College.

The editors’ big tent approach to utopian studies and their consideration of the intersection of theology, religion, and dystopia has produced a wide-ranging volume that opens up as many questions about the nature of dystopia and dystopian literature as it answers. In this regard, it provides a welcome and important departure for further considerations of a number of critical questions.

• 1.Dystopia as Demythologized ApocalypticBrandon Simonson and Scott Donahue-Martens2.The Dystopic Relations of Interstellar: A Response from Christian EcotheologyThomas G. Hermans-Webster3.Color-blind Dystopia: The Giver, Theology, Race, and RicoeurScott Donahue-Martens4.Qu(e)erying Posthuman Theologies in Ghost in the ShellAmanda L. Pumphrey and Nicholaus B. Pumphrey5.Social Life from Scratch: Morality, Religion, and Society in The Walking DeadJustin F. Martin6.How NOT to be a Zombie: The Walking Dead and Love for the World David Penn7.Dystopia in the Apocalypse: Religion and Community in Asimov’s Foundation Universe Brandon Simonson8.Katniss, Christos: Sacrifice and Salvation in Scripture and Young Adult Dystopian Novels Shayna Sheinfeld9.Dystopian Festivals, Utopian Fictions: Sovereignty, Sacrifice, and Sanctity in Biblical Jubilee and The PurgeC. J. McCrary10.The Ability or Inability to Change by the Presence or Absence of Deus ex MachinaBea´ta Gombko¨to?11