Deus in Machina : : Religion, Technology, and the Things in Between / / ed. by Jeremy Stolow.
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 o...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2012] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Religion, Technology, and the Things in Between
- Equipment
- Calendar, Clock, Tower
- Ticking Clock, Vibrating String: How Time Sense Oscillates Between Religion and Machine
- The Electric Touch Machine Miracle Scam: Body, Technology, and the (Dis)authentication of the Pentecostal Supernatural
- The Spiritual Nervous System: Reflections on a Magnetic Cord Designed for Spirit Communication
- Bio-Power
- An Empowered World: Buddhist Medicine and the Potency of Prayer in Japan
- Does Submission to God’s Will Preclude Biotechnological Intervention? Lessons from Muslim Dialysis Patients in Contemporary Egypt
- The Canary in the Gemeinschaft? Disability, Film, and the Jewish Question
- (Re)Locating Religion in a Technological Age
- Thinking about Melville, Religion, and Machines That Think
- Amazing Stories: How Science Fiction Sacralizes the Secular
- Virtual Vodou, Actual Practice: Transfi guring the Technological
- TV St. Claire
- Notes
- List of Contributors