Format:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 354 pages)
,
illustrations
Edition:
First edition
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0823250245
,
0823252485
,
0823249808
,
0823249816
,
0823249832
,
9780823250240
,
9780823252480
,
9780823249800
,
9780823249817
,
9780823249831
Content:
The essays in this volume explore how two domains of human experience and action, religion and technology, are implicated in each other. Contrary to commonsense understandings of both religion and technology, the contributors challenge the grounds on which this division has been erected in the first place
Content:
Religion, technology, and the things in between / Jeremy Stolow -- Calendar, clock, tower / John Durham Peters -- Ticking clock, vibrating string : how time sense oscillates between religion and machine / Wolfgang Ernst -- The electric touch machine miracle scam : body, technology, and the (dis)authentication of the pentecostal supernatural / Marleen de Witte -- The spiritual nervous system : reflections on a magnetic cord designed for spirit communication / Jeremy Stolow -- An empowered world : Buddhist medicine and the potency of prayer in Japan / Jason Ananda Josephson -- Does submission to God's will preclude biotechnological intervention? Lessons from Muslim dialysis patients in contemporary Egypt / Sherine F. Hamdy -- The canary in the Gemeinschaft? Disability, film, and the Jewish question / Faye Ginsburg -- Thinking about Melville, religion, and machines that think / John Lardas Modern -- Amazing stories : how science fiction sacralizes the secular / Peter Pels -- Virtual vodou, actual practice : transfiguring the technological / Alexandra Boutros -- TV St. Claire / Maria José A. de Abreu
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
,
English
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Deus in machina
Language:
English
Subjects:
Theology
,
Philosophy
Keywords:
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