Spotlight Dr. Tara Smith: Warhammer 40k and Spirituality
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- Опубликовано: 28 окт 2024
- Dr. Tara Smith is an interdisciplinary academic that works in the fields of science fiction, literature, and popular culture. Currently, she is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School, writing on religious ideas and experiences of people who paint and play within the science fiction 'grim dark' universe of Warhammer 40,000. She is currently visiting Amsterdam's HHP Centre at the University of Amsterdam in her Fellowship role.
In this interview, Tara discusses how there is a lacuna in the area of Religious Studies when it comes to researching the relationship between religion and tabletop games. Her work demonstrates that Warhammer 40k encourages players to talk and think about religion. We discuss the game and its influences, as well as the role of 'play' in Tara's research, which suggests that there is more imagination and interactional thought about religion than was previously presumed. As this is a work in progress, Tara also discusses her different approaches and her interests in broadening her research scope.
You can find Tara at: cswr.hds.harva...
Academia.edu page: hds.academia.e...
Tara's upcoming lecture for the HHP Centre in Amsterdam: / c6ytc63ni3-
EDIT/Correction: At the 10:50 minute mark, the image shown is not from Warhammer 40k, but from "Warhammer Fantasy Battles" ( a different game created by the same company that is about medieval fantasy battles instead of the sci-fi game Tara and I were discussing). My thanks to a viewer who reached out to me to notify me of the difference! Mea culpa; I'm still learning. ;)
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Tara, thanks for your thoughts and insights on this project that you are working on.
Keep up the exceptional work, Stephanie 👍
Thank you so much!
@@rejectedreligionmy son actually co-wrote a script with me about the theological and apocalyptic significance of the Dark Souls/Miyazaki universe.
When I eventually have time to make more freeform essay videos, I'll do it
@@SobekLOTFC That is awesome! I look forward to it!
Interesting stuff, thank you!
Very happy you enjoyed it!
prayer and magic are interchangeable...
the fact that the imperium uses the warp ... should really be a key point to what is "evil"
Hail the Omnissiah! He is the God in the Machine, the Source of All Knowledge.
Tara is very interteresting, i wonder if she has any thougts about otherkin culture, which is n much closer to being a "religion" in se ways, as a confirmed way of liffe as an angel, therian
Thank you for your comment! I find it interesting that you bring up Otherkin; have you perhaps read my Research Master thesis? (It's about Otherkin.) :)
@@rejectedreligion i have not, but that is very exciting i would love to read it. have an interest in religion, belief systems and rpgs of all sorts.
Nihilism is what is happening ...
people just finding meaning in hobby, community, identity, shared dislikes.
specifically Warhammer though... imperialism, strength, destruction of "the other" of xenos and heresy .
warhammer is a critique on all these things... that seems missed by many.
The God Emporer approves.