Intro
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction | Aparajita Nanda and Shelby L. Crosby
Part I. Spiritualities and Religious Constructs
1. Religious Science Fiction: Butler's Changing God | Gregory Hampton
2. Transreligious World Building: Hindu Evocations in Octavia Butler's Lilith's Brood | Aparajita Nanda
3. God Is Change, Impermanence Is Buddha Nature: Religious Syncretism in Butler's Earthseed and Dōgen's Zen | Christopher Kocela
4. Butler's Invention of Scripture in Light of Hebrew Wisdom Literature | Charlotte Naylor Davis
5. Regarding the Other in Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis: Toward a Posthumanist Ethics | Mary M. Grover
6. Parable of the Talents as Genre Criticism and the Holy Spirit of Speculative Fiction | Chuck Robinson
Part II. Trauma and Healing
7. "Only Actions": Ritual and the Embodied Processing of Trauma in Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents | Keegan Osinski
8. Migration, Spirituality, and Restorative Spaces: Shape-Shifting to Heal in Octavia Butler's Wild Seed | Briana Whiteside
9. "We Trade the Essence of Ourselves": West African Spirituality in Xenogenesis's Oankali | Ebony Gibson
10. The Healing and Harmful Effects of Work in Octavia Butler's Short Stories "Crossover," "The Book of Martha," and "Speech Sounds" | Jennifer L. Hayes
11. Shapers of God: Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower and Womanist Theological Practice | Tarshia L. Stanley
Part III. Black Liberation and Notions of Freedom
12. Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis Trilogy, Bloodchild, and the Androgynous Third | Alexis Brooks de Vita
13. Erotic Pedagogy in Parable of the Talents: Freedom and Community through Touch | Brianna Thompson
14. Black Women's Prophecy: O. E. Butler's Parables | Phyllis Lynne Burns.

15. The Violence of Making America Great Again: Religion, Power, and Vulnerable Bodies in Octavia Butler's Parable of the Talents | Michael Brandon McCormack
16. Creating New Worlds: Earthseed as a Tool for Black Liberation | Shelby L. Crosby
List of Contributors
Index.