'Religion in Sort of a Global Sense': The Relevance of Religious Practices for Political Community in Battlestar Galactica and Beyond
Neumann, Iver B.in Journal of Contemporary Religion 2011, vol. 26 (3)
Taylor & Francis (2011)s. 387-401.
With reference to the works of Carl Schmitt and Eric Voegelin, Iver Neumann argue that the key precondition for the co-existence of religions in the series Battlestar Galactica is the avoidance of what Voegelin calls political theology. Differences in creed, doctrine, and specific religious practices may exist side by side as long as certain practices associated with the sacred—in the case of BSG, primarily practices that have to do with burying and remembering the dead—are shared.
