Deus in Machina : Religion, Technology, and the Things in Between.
Stolow, Jeremy.
Deus in Machina : Religion, Technology, and the Things in Between. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (366 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Equipment -- Calendar, Clock, Tower -- Ticking Clock, Vibrating String -- The Electric Touch Machine Miracle Scam -- The Spiritual Nervous System -- Bio-Power -- An Empowered World -- Does Submission to God's Will Preclude Biotechnological Intervention? -- The Canary in the Gemeinschaft? -- (Re)Locating Religion in a Technological Age -- Thinking about Melville, Religion, and Machines That Think -- Amazing Stories -- Virtual Vodou, Actual Practice -- TV St. Claire -- Notes -- Contributers.
This interdisciplinary volume explores how two domains of human experience and action-religion and technology-are implicated in one another. Combining rich historical and ethnographic detail with extended theoretical reflection, Deus in Machina challenges longstanding assumptions about religion and/as technology and outlines new directions of inquiry at the crossroads of religious studies, science and technology studies, communication studies, history, anthropology, and philosophy.
9780823250240
Technology - Religious aspects.
Electronic books.
BL265.T4 -- D48 2013eb
201/.66
Deus in Machina : Religion, Technology, and the Things in Between. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (366 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Equipment -- Calendar, Clock, Tower -- Ticking Clock, Vibrating String -- The Electric Touch Machine Miracle Scam -- The Spiritual Nervous System -- Bio-Power -- An Empowered World -- Does Submission to God's Will Preclude Biotechnological Intervention? -- The Canary in the Gemeinschaft? -- (Re)Locating Religion in a Technological Age -- Thinking about Melville, Religion, and Machines That Think -- Amazing Stories -- Virtual Vodou, Actual Practice -- TV St. Claire -- Notes -- Contributers.
This interdisciplinary volume explores how two domains of human experience and action-religion and technology-are implicated in one another. Combining rich historical and ethnographic detail with extended theoretical reflection, Deus in Machina challenges longstanding assumptions about religion and/as technology and outlines new directions of inquiry at the crossroads of religious studies, science and technology studies, communication studies, history, anthropology, and philosophy.
9780823250240
Technology - Religious aspects.
Electronic books.
BL265.T4 -- D48 2013eb
201/.66