Sam Han

Technologies of Religion (eBook, PDF)

Spheres of the Sacred in a Post-secular Modernity

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Produktbeschreibung

Breaking new ground by bringing together empirical work done in the vein of the emergent field of "digital religion" and larger social-theoretical discussions on secularism and modernity, this book investigates the powerful entanglement of religion and new media technologies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 142
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317517900
• Artikelnr.: 44867016

Autorenporträt

Sam Han is a Seoul-born, New York City-raised interdisciplinary social scientist, working in the areas of social and cultural theory, religion, new media and globalization. He is currently Assistant Professor of Sociology at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore and Adjunct Research Fellow at the Hawke Research Institute of the University of South Australia. He is author (with Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir) of Digital Culture and Religion in Asia (Routledge, 2015), Web 2.0 (Routledge, 2011), Navigating Technomedia: Caught in the Web (Rowman & Littlefield, 2007) and editor (with Daniel Chaffee) of The Race of Time: A Charles Lemert Reader (Paradigm Publishers, 2009).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Technologies of Religion: An introduction 2. Disenchantment Revisited:
Formations of the "secular" and "religious" in the technological discourse
of modernity 3. From Cosmos to Sphere "Worlds" across religion and
technology 4. (Atmo)sphere: The liturgical aesthetics of deterritorialized
worship spaces 5. The Digital Milieu: The socialization of religions
experience in church online 6. Is the Return of Religion the Return of
Metaphysics? Or, the Renewed Spirit of Capitalism? 7. Conclusion