Deus in machina : religion, technology, and the things in between
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 (as an "otherworldly" orientation) and technology (as the name for tools, techniques, and expert knowledges oriented to "this" world), the contributors to this volume challenge the grounds on which this division has been erected
Print Book, English, 2013
Fordham University Press, New York, 2013
Aufsatzsammlung
x, 354 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780823249800, 9780823249817, 0823249808, 0823249816
792885554
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
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