Religious Science Fiction in Battlestar Galactica and Caprica ─ Women As Mediators of the Sacred and Profane

Author Jutta Wimmler presents students, academics, researchers, and general interest readers with an examination of the connection between the use of religion and the dominance of women in the science fiction series Battlestar Galactica and Caprica. The author has organized the main body of her text in eight chapters devoted to religious science fiction, women as saviors, angels and prophets, fallen women, and a wide variety of other related subjects. The author is a faculty member of the European-University Viadrina in Frankfurt, Germany. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Jutta Wimmler is a historian and scholar of religion at the European-University Viadrina in Frankfurt, Germany. Her research on religion and popular culture has been published in the Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture.