Religion and technology in the 21st century : faith in the e-world
"This book examines the unique synergy between religion and technology, and explores the many ways that technology is shaping religious expression, as well as ways that religion is coming to influence technology"--Provided by publisher
eBook, English, ©2006
Information Science Pub., Information Science Pub., Hershey, PA, Hershey, PA, ©2006
1 online resource (xix, 272 pages) : illustrations
9781591407164, 9781591407140, 9781591407157, 9781280454219, 9786610454211, 1591407168, 1591407141, 159140715X, 1280454210, 6610454213
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Technology and religion
Defining technology
Why technology and not science?
Defining religion
Why technology and religion?
The philosophy of technology
What is the problem: technological determinism
Approaches to the technological problem
Technology and identity
21st century technologies
Information and communication technologies
Artificial intelligence
Ubiqutious computing and ambient intelligence
Virtual AI
Future directions and the challenges
The penetration of AI technologies in society
The relational machine
Mind where you're going
The techno-religious age
The search beyond Google
Mutual transcendence
World religions
Technology for religion
21st century Christianity
Christendom: the ultimate defiance?
Failures of Christianity
What is church?
Church and the Internet
Examples of Internet and church
Function of the Internet and church
Typologies for Internet entities and church
Christian community: real and virtual
Real and virtual Christian communities
Interactive life
The question of presence
The theology of technology
Theology and cybertheology
Moral machines or people?
Artificial identity: the image of God
The philosophy of AI
What is computation?
Computationalism: can a machine think?
People, machines, and the non-algorithmic
Principle-based engineering
Constraint-based computation
Situated computation
Constraint systems and evolutionary systems
Beyond culture
A transcultural world
Without a technology and religion synergy
English