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Nature Technology and the Sacred
Author | : Bronislaw Szerszynski |
Publsiher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2008-04-15 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781405137775 |
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This provocative and timely book argues that contemporary ideas and practices concerning nature and technology remain closely bound up with religious ways of thinking and acting. Using examples from North America, Europe and elsewhere, it reinterprets a range of 'secular' phenomena in terms of their conditioning by a complex series of transformations of the sacred in Western history. The contemporary practices of environmental politics, technological risk behaviour, alternative medicine, vegetarianism and ethical consumption take on new significance as sites of struggle between different sacral orderings. Nature, Technology and the Sacred introduces a radically new direction for today's critical discourse concerning nature and technology – one that reinstates it as a moment within the ongoing religious history of the West.
Nature Technology and the Sacred
Author | : Bronislaw Szerszynski |
Publsiher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2005-01-28 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0631236031 |
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This provocative and timely book argues that contemporary ideas and practices concerning nature and technology remain closely bound up with religious ways of thinking and acting. Using examples from North America, Europe and elsewhere, it reinterprets a range of 'secular' phenomena in terms of their conditioning by a complex series of transformations of the sacred in Western history. The contemporary practices of environmental politics, technological risk behaviour, alternative medicine, vegetarianism and ethical consumption take on new significance as sites of struggle between different sacral orderings. Nature, Technology and the Sacred introduces a radically new direction for today's critical discourse concerning nature and technology – one that reinstates it as a moment within the ongoing religious history of the West.
Nature Reality and the Sacred
Author | : Langdon Gilkey |
Publsiher | : Theology and the Sciences |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : UOM:39015032818810 |
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Two partial apprehensions of nature vied for dominance in the past century: religious (void of any influence from science) and scientific (unable to admit any reality, beyond the empirical). Both views have led to the exploitation of nature -- and the scientific may prove even more devastating. The fault, Gilkey argues, lies not in the scientific knowledge of nature but in the assumed philosophy of science that accompanies most scientific and technological practice. Scientific knowing needs to be critiqued and brought into relationship with other complementary ways of knowing.
Technofutures Nature and the Sacred
Author | : Celia Deane-Drummond,Sigurd Bergmann,Bronislaw Szerszynski |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2016-03-03 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781317046486 |
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The capacity of human beings to invent, construct and use technical artifacts is a hugely consequential factor in the evolution of society, and in the entangled relations between humans, other creatures and their natural environments. Moving from a critical consideration of theories, to narratives about technology, and then to particular and specific practices, Technofutures, Nature and the Sacred seeks to arrive at a genuinely transdisciplinary perspective focusing attention on the intersection between technology, religion and society and using insights from the environmental humanities. It works from both theoretical and practical contexts by using newly emerging case studies, including geo-engineering and soil carbon technologies, and breaks open new ground by engaging theological, scientific, philosophical and cultural aspects of the technology/religion/nature nexus. Encouraging us to reflect on the significance and place of religious beliefs in dealing with new technologies, and engaging critical theory common in sociological, political and literary discourses, the authors explore the implicit religious claims embedded in technology.
Nature Space and the Sacred
Author | : S. Bergmann,H. Bedford-Strohm |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 501 |
Release | : 2016-12-05 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781351915670 |
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Nature, Space and the Sacred offers the first investigative mapping of a new and highly significant agenda: the spatial interactions between religion, nature and culture. In this ground-breaking work, different concepts of religion, theology, space and place and their internal relations are discussed in an impressive range of approaches. Weaving together a diversity of perspectives, this book presents an innovative and truly transdisciplinary environmental science. Its broad range offers a rich exchange of insights, methods and theoretical engagements.
Owen Barfield
Author | : Michael V. Di Fuccia |
Publsiher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2016-10-27 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781498238731 |
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In this book Michael Di Fuccia examines the theological import of Owen Barfield's poetic philosophy. He argues that philosophies of immanence fail to account for creativity, as is evident in the false shuttling between modernity's active construal and postmodernity's passive construal of subjectivity. In both extremes subjectivity actually dissolves, divesting one of any creative integrity. Di Fuccia shows how in Barfield's scheme the creative subject appears instead to inhabit a middle or medial realm, which upholds one's creative integrity. It is in this way that Barfield's poetic philosophy gestures toward a theological vision of poiēsis proper, wherein creativity is envisaged as neither purely passive nor purely active, but middle. Creativity, thus, is not immanent but mediated, a participation in being's primordial poiēsis.
Nature Space and the Sacred
Author | : Taylor & Francis Group,S Bergmann,H Bedford-Strohm |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2021-12-13 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 1032243384 |
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Nature, Space and the Sacred offers the first investigative mapping of a new and highly significant agenda: the spatial interactions between religion, nature and culture. In this ground-breaking work, different concepts of religion, theology, space and place and their internal relations are discussed in an impressive range of approaches. Weaving together a diversity of perspectives, this book presents an innovative and truly transdisciplinary environmental science. Its broad range offers a rich exchange of insights, methods and theoretical engagements.
The Re Enchantment of the West Vol 2
Author | : Christopher Partridge |
Publsiher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 481 |
Release | : 2006-06-20 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780567041234 |
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Challenging some assessments of religion in the West, this study argues that, although much organized religion, particularly Christianity, is in numerical decline, in actual fact we are witnessing an alternative spiritual re-enchantment of society and culture.