Mediating piety [electronic resource] : technology and religion in contemporary Asia / edited by Francis Khek Gee Lim.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lim, Francis Khek Gee.

Series:

Social sciences in Asia ; v. 26.

Social sciences in Asia, 1567-2794 ; v. 26

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and science.

Technology--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Technology.

Technology--Asia.

Mass media--Religious aspects.

Mass media.

Asia--Religion.

Asia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (252 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A timely and groundbreaking work, here is a comprehensive analysis of the interactions between religion and technology in Asia today. How does the use of technology affect people's experience of spirituality and the formation of religious identity and community? How do developments in the latest technological breakthroughs such as the Internet influence the ways people constitute themselves as social beings, and how does it shape their experience of the sacred and the divine? Conversely, to what extent, and in what ways do religious beliefs and practices shape people’s attitude towards new technology and its deployment? Combining wide-ranging empirical investigations and sophisticated theoretical reflections, this book demonstrates how the technological and the religious often intersect with the political, thereby elucidating the complex relationships between spirituality, social and identity formation, sovereignty and power.

Contents:

Charismatic technology / Francis Khek Gee Lim

Religion in the age of technology

Technologies, religion and social mediation / Bryan S. Turner

The fate of God in the age of technology / Anton Sevilla

Technology, religion and nationalism

A message from Ashabirin : high technology and political Islam in Indonesia / Sulfi kar Amir

Powerpointing Islam : form and spiritual reform in Reformasi Indonesia / Daromir Rudnyckyj

Mediating piety

A spectacle of worship : technology, modernity and the rise of the Christian megachurch / Joseph Nathan Cruz

The "short-waved faith" : Christian broadcasting and Protestant conversion of the Hmong in Vietnam / Ngo Thi Thanh Tam

'New media', religious discourse, community

Shopping for God : media and religion in Singapore / Robin Chee and James Chen

The new face of global evangelism : virtualizing spiritual experience / Jayeel Serrano Cornelio

Religious ecology on the internet: a case study of Tibetan Buddhism / Low Yuen Wei.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-95064-9

9786612950643

90-474-4074-9

OCLC:

695990230

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004178397.i-240 DOI