Part 1. Relating hope and Utopia. Utopia and narrative: theology between the boundaries of overhumanization and hypertheisms / Verna Ehret ; Hope, hatred, and the ambiguities of Utopic longing / Diana Fritz Cates ; What means Utopia to us? Reconsidering More's message / Marybeth Baggett ; Desiring Utopian subjects: collectivity and its discontents / Holly White -- Part 2. Historical and literary Utopian visions. John Calvin, Geneva, and godly patriarchs: hope and reality in the creation of a Christian Utopia / Ezra L. Plank ; Fruit, fossils, footprints: cathecting Utopia in the work of Miyazawa Kenjo / Melissa Anne-Marie Curley ; Walter Kerr's Utopia of re-creation / Benjamin K. Hunnicutt ; Reframed hope: trancendent technology and spiraling subjectivity in Dystopian cinema / Everett Hamner -- Part 3. The hope for atheism as a religious Utopia. Who we are is God's dying: the real presence of God's absence in Bonhoeffer's prison poems / Steven Schroeder ; Technotopia: the convergence of art and technology in the twentieth century and beyond / J. Sage Elwell ; The coming community: Agamben, Benjamin, and the hope for a materialist-Messianic redemption of the present / W. David Hall ; No-places for sacred communities: hope and the failure of Fight Club / Daniel Boscaljon.
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