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Popular/scholarly book

• 2026. Futureproofing Humanity: Existential Risk and the Technomyths of Human Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, and Our Future Among the Stars. Independent.

Scholarly books

• 2022. Futures of Artificial Intelligence: Perspectives from India and the U.S. Delhi: Oxford University Press.
• 2018. Temples of Modernity: Nationalism, Hinduism, and Transhumanism in South Indian Science. Lanham, MD: Lexington.
• 2014. Virtually Sacred: Myth and Meaning in World of Warcraft and Second Life. New York: Oxford University Press.
• 2010. Apocalyptic AI: Visions of Heaven in Robotics, Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality. New York: Oxford University Press.

Scholarly essays (select)

• 2025. “The Virtuous Well: Religion and Culture at the Depth of Intelligence.” Theology & Science. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/14746700.2025.2514298
• 2025. (with Yong Sup Song) “Cultural Theology & Social Robotics: The Intersection of Religion and Science in Ethical AI.” Religion 55(3): 715-737. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/0048721X.2025.2502294
• 2024. “Religion among Robots: An If/When of Future Machine Intelligence.” Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 59(3): 729-747. doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/zygon.10860
• 2024. (with Stephen Kaplan) “Hinduism and AI.” In The Cambridge Companion to Religion and Artificial Intelligence, edited by Fraser Watts and Beth Singler. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 33-49.
• 2023. (with Yong Sup Song) “Marginalization and Transcendence in Transhumanism and Minjung Theology.” Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 58(1): 23-44.
• 2020. “A Hydra-logical Approach: Acknowledging Complexity in the Study of Religion, Science, and Technology.” Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 55(4): 948-970.
• 2019. “Religious Ritual in Scientific Spaces: Festival Participation and the Integration of Outsiders.” Science, Technology & Human Values 44(6): 965-993.
• 2018. (with Renny Thomas). “Religious Rites and Scientific Communities: Ayudha Puja as ‘Culture’ at the Indian Institute of Science.” Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 53(1).
• 2018. “Saffron Glasses: Indian Nationalism and the Enchantment of Technology.” Religion and Technology in India: Spaces, Practices and Authorities (ed. Knut Jacobsen and Kristina Myrvold). Abingdon: Routledge.
• 2014. “A Novel Society: Science Fiction Novels as Religious Actors.” Implicit Religion 17(4): 417-431.
• 2014. (with Nat Recine). “Enlightening the Galaxy: How Players Experience Political Philosophy in Star Wars: The Old Republic.” Games and Culture 9(4): 255-276.
• 2013. (with Jovi L. Geraci). “Virtual Gender: How Men and Women Use Videogame Bodies.” Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds 5(3): 329-348.
• 2012. “Theological Productions: The Role of Religion in Video Game Design.” In Cultural Perspectives of Video Games: From Designer to Player (eds. Adam L. Brackin and Natacha Guyot). Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press. pp. 101-114.
• 2012. “Video Gaming and the Transhuman Inclination.” Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 47(4): 735-756.
• 2011. “Martial Bliss: War and Peace in Popular Science Robotics.” Philosophy & Technology 24(3): 339-354.
• 2011. “There and Back Again: Transhumanist Evangelism in Science Fiction and Popular Science.” Implicit Religion 14(2): 141-172.
• 2010. “Popular Appeal of Apocalyptic AI.” Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 45(4): 1003-1020.
• 2008. “Apocalyptic AI: Religion and the Promise of Artificial Intelligence.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 76(1): 138-166.
• 2007. “Cultural Prestige: Popular Science Robotics as Religion-Science Hybrid.” Reconfigurations: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Religion in a Post-Secular Society (eds. Ornella and Knauss). Vienna: LIT Press. 43-58.
• 2007. “Robots and the Sacred in Science and Science Fiction: Theological Implications of Artificial Intelligence.” Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 42(4): 961-980.
• 2006. “Spiritual Robots: Religion and Our Scientific View of the Natural World.” Theology and Science 4(3): 229-246.
• 2002. “Laboratory Ritual: Experimentation and the Advancement of Science.” Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 37(4): 891-908.

Popular essays

• 2025. “The Future of Tech: Black Boxes or Clear Communication?” Public Books (May 27).
• 2024. “AI as a Cultural Phenomenon in India and the USA.” India Today (January 15): 55-56.
• 2023. “Via Jokes, ChatGPT Chooses Which Religious Traditions and Figures Deserve Respect – and Therefore What Counts as Religion.” Religion Dispatches (February 6).
• 2022. “Is the Metaverse the Hero We Need to Rescue Us from Suffering and Enchant the World?” Religion Dispatches (March 30).
• 2022. “Decision-making and Public Policy at the Intersection of Religion and AI.” G20 Interfaith Forum blog (February 1).
• 2018. “Engineering Prophecies: Can the Future Be Built in the Present?” CenSAMM blog (February 8).
• 2016. “L’Évangelisme Transhumaine.” PERSONA Exhibition Catalog (ed. E. Grimaud), pp. 212-213. Musée du Quai Branley. Paris, France (exhibition: 1/26-11/13).
• 2015. “A Moral Galaxy: War and Suffering in Star Wars: The Old Republic.” Religion Dispatches (December 15).
• 2014. “Monstrous Futures: Dungeons & Dragons, Harbinger of the “None” Generation, Turns 40.” Religion Dispatches (September 22).
  • Featured by Boing Boing (September 24)
• 2014. “Gaming the System.” Oxford University Press blog.  (August 9).
• 2012. “Shared Paradise.” Sightings. Published by the Martin Marty Center at the University of Chicago (January 26).
• 2011. “The Cult of Kurzweil: Will Robots Save Our Souls?” Religion Dispatches (April 5).
  • Featured by The Week (April 11)
• 2008. “Virtual Salvation: The Sacred World of Second Life.” SL’ang Life no. 4 (2008).
• 2007. “Religion for the Robots.” Sightings. Published by the Martin Marty Center at the University of Chicago (June 14).