Technofutures, Nature and the Sacred: Transdisciplinary Perspectives

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART I THEORIES -- 1 Human Responsibility for Extra-Human Nature: An Ethical Approach to Technofutures -- 2 Technology and the Humanisation of Nature:...

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Main Author: Deane-Drummond, Celia (Author)
Contributors: Bergmann, Sigurd (Other) ; Szerszynski, Bronislaw (Other)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: London Taylor and Francis 2016
In:Year: 2016
Edition:1st ed
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Technology / Religion / Society / Interdisciplinary research
Further subjects:B Collection of essays
B Conference program
Online Access: Volltext (Aggregator)
Parallel Edition:Non-electronic
Print version: Deane-Drummond, Celia: Technofutures, Nature and the Sacred : Transdisciplinary Perspectives. - London : Taylor and Francis,c2016. - 9781472444103
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Summary:Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART I THEORIES -- 1 Human Responsibility for Extra-Human Nature: An Ethical Approach to Technofutures -- 2 Technology and the Humanisation of Nature: New Resources for Critical Assessment -- 3 Artefactualising the Sacred: Restating the Case for Martin Heidegger’s ‘Hermeneutical’ Philosophy of Technology -- 4 Technology in a Postnatural Condition? Concepts of Nature and Meanings of Technology -- PART II RELIGIOUS NARRATIVES -- 5 Forbidden Fruit: Wonder, Religious Narrative and the Quest for the Atomic Bomb -- 6 Technology and Iconography: Minding the logoi -- 7 ‘Millions of Machines are Already Roaring’: Fetishised Technology Encountered by the Life-Giving Spirit -- 8 The Technologisation of Life: Theology and the Trans-Human and Trans-Animal Narratives of the Post-Animal -- PART III PRACTICES -- 9 Re-Inventing Homemaking: A Necessary and Ethical Means of Production in a Post-Growth, Ecologically Sustainable Economy -- 10 Redeeming the Climate: Investigating a Theological Model of Geoengineering -- 11 Resilience Techniques: Spiritual Practices and Customary Economics within Farming Communities in Amanbaev Village, Kyrgyzstan -- 12 Miraculous Engineering and the Climate Emergency: Climate Modification as Divine Economy -- PART IV SYNTHESIS -- 13 The Twilight of the Machines -- Bibliography
ISBN:1317046471