Robert M. Geraci is Knight Distinguished Chair for the Study of Religion and Culture at Knox College. He is the author of Apocalyptic AI: Visions of Heaven in Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and Virtual Reality (Oxford, 2010); Virtually Sacred: Myth and Meaning in World of Warcraft and Second Life (Oxford, 2014); Temples of Modernity: Nationalism, Hinduism, and Transhumanism in South Indian Science (Lexington, 2018); and Futures of Artificial Intelligence: Perspectives from India and the United States (Oxford, 2022).











