• Astrotopia: The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race

  • Dec 19 2022
  • Length: 1 hr
  • Podcast

Astrotopia: The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race

  • Summary

  • In this episode, Alina Utrata talks Mary-Jane Rubenstein, a professor of Religion and Science in Society at Wesleyan University and the author of the new book Astrotopia: The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race. They discuss whether Elon Musk acts like a religious leader, how imperial Christianity set the stage for capitalism, the ways science fiction has acted as a mythology for space expansionists, and the history of a Nazi rocket scientist turned Christian evangelical partnered with Disney to promote the new Manifest Destiny of the stars.



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