Technofutures, Nature and the Sacred

Transdisciplinary Perspectives
Herausgeber: Deane-Drummond, Celia; Szerszynski, Bronislaw; Bergmann, Sigurd

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Produktbeschreibung

How do the powerful driving forces of religion and technology interact in the way that humans act towards and within the natural world? Deane-Drummond, Bergmann and Szerszynski are concerned with understanding the complex relation between technology and religious belief in their intersections with the natural world. Working from both theoretical and practical contexts by using newly emerging case studies, including geo-engineering and soil carbon technologies, this volume breaks new ground by engaging theological, scientific, philosophical and cultural aspects of the technology/religion/nature nexus.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 615g
• ISBN-13: 9781472444103
• ISBN-10: 1472444108
• Artikelnr.: 44365441

Autorenporträt

Celia Deane-Drummond is Professor in Theology at the University of Notre Dame. Her post is concurrent with the College of Science. She has published numerous single author books and edited volumes such as Future Perfect: God, Medicine and Human Identity (2006); Religion and Ecology in the Public Sphere (2011); and Animals as Religious Subjects: Transdisciplinary Perspectives (2013). Sigurd Bergmann is Professor in Religious Studies in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway. His numerous publications include The Ethics of Mobilities (2008); Theology in Built Environments (2009); and Religion, Space and Environment (2014). Bronislaw Szerszynski is Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of Sociology, Lancaster University, UK. His published work on the relation between religion and technology includes Re-Ordering Nature: Theology, Society and the New Genetics (2003) and Nature, Technology and the Sacred (2005). Current research foci include geoengineering and the Anthropocene.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
I: Theories
1: Human Responsibility for Extra-Human Nature
2: Technology and the Humanisation of Nature
3: Artefactualising the Sacred
4: Technology in a Postnatural Condition? Concepts of Nature and Meanings of Technology 1
II: Religious Narratives
5: Forbidden Fruit
6: Technology and Iconography
7: 'Millions of Machines are Already Roaring'
8: The Technologisation of Life
III: Practices
9: Re-Inventing Homemaking
10: Redeeming the Climate
11: Resilience Techniques
12: Miraculous Engineering and the Climate Emergency
IV: Synthesis
13: The Twilight of the Machines