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Religion in the Age of Digitalization

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Religion in the Age of Digitalization

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Religion in the Age of Digitalization book

From New Media to Spiritual Machines

Religion in the Age of Digitalization

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Religion in the Age of Digitalization book

From New Media to Spiritual Machines
Edited ByGiulia Isetti, Elisa Innerhofer, Harald Pechlaner, Michael de Rachewiltz
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2020
eBook Published 16 October 2020
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367809225
Pages 208
eBook ISBN 9780367809225
Subjects Humanities, Social Sciences
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Isetti, G., Innerhofer, E., Pechlaner, H., & de Rachewiltz, M. (Eds.). (2020). Religion in the Age of Digitalization: From New Media to Spiritual Machines (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367809225

ABSTRACT

This book examines the current use of digital media in religious engagement and how new media can influence and alter faith and spirituality. As technologies are introduced and improved, they continue to raise pressing questions about the impact, both positive and negative, that they have on the lives of those that use them. The book also deals with some of the more futuristic and speculative topics related to transhumanism and digitalization.

Including an international group of contributors from a variety of disciplines, chapters address the intersection of religion and digital media from multiple perspectives. Divided into two sections, the chapters included in the first section of the book present case studies from five major religions: Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism and Judaism and their engagement with digitalization. The second section of the volume explores the moral, ideological but also ontological implications of our increasingly digital lives.

This book provides a uniquely comprehensive overview of the development of religion and spirituality in the digital age. As such, it will be of keen interest to scholars of Digital Religion, Religion and Media, Religion and Sociology, as well as Religious Studies and New Media more generally, but also for every student interested in the future of religion and spirituality in a completely digitalized world.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |10 pages

Introduction

ByGiulia Isetti, Elisa Innerhofer, Harald Pechlaner, Michael de Rachewiltz

part Part I|86 pages

Religious practices in the age of digitalization

chapter 1|12 pages

Islam and new media

Islam has entered the chat
ByRuqayya Yasmine Khan, Ashley Kyong Aytes

chapter 2|10 pages

Understanding God in the Web 2.0

ByClaudia Paganini

chapter 3|12 pages

Buddhism in the age of digital reproduction

ByGregory Price Grieve, Daniel Veidlinger

chapter 4|14 pages

Hinduism and new media

Identities being deconstructed and constructed
ByAugustine Pamplany

chapter 5|11 pages

To use or not to use the Internet to support religious and spiritual life

ByIsabelle Jonveaux

chapter 6|14 pages

Networked individuals

The virtual reality of the sabbath in twenty-first century American Judaism
ByAndrea Lieber

chapter 7|11 pages

Robots, religion and communication

Rethinking piety, practices and pedagogy in the era of artificial intelligence
ByPauline Hope Cheong

part Part II|84 pages

Religious and spiritual hopes in the digital turn

chapter 8|16 pages

Technology: the new God?

Techno-metaphysics and homo deus: contemporary attempts towards a radical perspective on the digital change of religion
ByRoland Benedikter

chapter 9|4 pages

Religion and digitalization

ByIvo Muser, Harald Pechlaner

chapter 10|16 pages

Is transhumanism a religion?

ByBoris Rähme

chapter 11|9 pages

Are “spiritual machines” possible?

ByMichael de Rachewiltz

chapter 12|11 pages

A digital spirituality for digital humans?

ByLucia Galvagni

chapter 13|10 pages

Experience and information

Thoughts on spirituality in a time of information flooding
ByHarald Walach

chapter 14|16 pages

The correlation between ethics and technology

ByPeter G. Kirchschlaeger

chapter |11 pages

Outlook

Digital religion and (dis-)embodiment
ByGeorg Gasser
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