God and technology / Heidi A. Campbell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Campbell, Heidi, 1970- author.

Series:

Cambridge elements. Elements in the problems of God, 2754-8724.

Cambridge elements. Elements in the problems of God, 2754-8724

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Digital media--Religious aspects.

Digital media.

Mass media--Religious aspects.

Mass media.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (76 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2025.

Summary:

This Element brings work from the philosophy of technology into conversation with media, religion, culture studies, and work in digital religion studies to explore examples of how popular media and emerging technologies are increasingly framed and understood through a distinct range of spiritual myths, metaphors, images, and representations of God. Working with three case studies about how internet memes, popular films, and media coverage of public philosophy link ideas about God and technology, this Element draws attention to common conceptions that describe a perceived relationship between religion and technology today. It synthesizes these discussions and categories and presents them in four distinct models, showing a range of ways in which the relationship between God and technology is commonly depicted. The Element seeks to create a platform for scholarly study and critical discourse on technology's religious and spiritual representation in digital and emerging media cultures and contexts through this work.

Contents:

Cover

Title page

Imprints page

God and Technology

Contents

1 The Presence and Perception of God in a Technological World

Contextualizing My Approach to God and Technology

Studying Religious Intersections with Technology

Defining Technology

The Values of Technology

God in Context

Contextualizing Religion and Spirituality about Technology

Relationship between God and Technology

Mapping the Conversation in God and Technology

Summarizing Approaches to Technology, God, and Religion Guiding This Element

2 Myths about God and Technology in AI Films

Myths about Technology and God in Popular Science Fiction Films

Three Techno-Spiritual Myths

Techno-Spiritual Myths in Popular Science Fiction Films

Transcendence and the Myth of Techgnosis

Supernatural Sci-Fi Myths and Tropes about Technology and AI

3 Framing God through Posthuman Eyes

What Is Posthumanism?

Versions of the Posthuman

The Human-Technology Relationship and the Divine

The Technology-Cultured Frame: Technology Is Informing Humanity and Its Future

Human-Technology Hybrid Frame: Humanity Merges with Technology

How These Human-Technology Frames Point to Spiritual Understandings of Our Technological World

Summarizing How Different Media Discourses Shape Technology Religiously

4 Models for Understanding the Created Relationship between God and Technology

A Review of Concepts and Commonalities in Religious Discussion about Technology

Religious Metaphors about Technology from the Philosophy of Technology

The Religious Rhetoric of the Techno-Spiritual Myths

Four Models for Discussing the Relationship between God and Technology

Final Thoughts on God and Technology

References.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-009-28711-7

1-009-28713-3

1-009-28710-9

OCLC:

1527591101