ABSTRACT
The success of Ryan Coogler’s 2018 film Black Panther brought the theoretical trend of Afrofuturism even more into the mainstream of public discourse than it had been already. Using Afrofuturism and other ethnically associated futurisms as a lens and drawing on the film and on works by Octavia Butler, Nnedi Okorafor and others, this chapter explores science fiction’s engagement with questions of religion and race. The roles of religion in illuminating the nature of racialized encounters, and of race in influencing perceptions and constructions of religion are also considered.
