Why do tech CEOs and visionaries use religious language—and what, if anything, does it have to do with organized religion? We talk Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Professor of Religion and Science in Society at Wesleyan, about unity, infinity, simulated realities, NASA, and how human beings have sought to make meaning of their world.

Reading List:

Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari

Astrotopia by Mary-Jane Rubenstein

Worlds Without End by Mary-Jane Rubenstein

Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Broken Earth Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin

Penseés by Blaise Pascal

Fear and Trembling by Søren Kierkegaard

The Imitation of Christ by Thomas à Kempis

The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James