An Unexpected Journey: Explicit and Implicit Religious Dimensions of Technology Throughout the Ages

Contrary to a widespread assumption, technology is not a neutral reality which can be left to a purely self-referential understanding. Indeed, one cannot seriously grasp technological phenomena without becoming aware of the symbolic matrixes--that is, the wide sets of values, symbols, beliefs and my...

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Main Author: Ménard, Guy 1948- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Equinox [2016]
In: Implicit religion
Year: 2016, Volume: 19, Issue: 3, Pages: 425-438
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Technical advancement / Religion
Further subjects:B Myth
B Religious Studies
B Symbol
B Middle Ages
B Industrial Revolution
B History
B IPHONE (Smartphone)
B Reason
B Autopoiesis
B Prehistory
B Modernity
B Technology
B Ancient Greece
B Scholars
B TECHNOLOGY & society
B symbolic matrix
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