This book is about the relationships between technologies and the content of religious belief and practice. A number of models are now starting to emerge, but each of these depends on the theological or philosophical framework within which the debate is set. At at the same time, there are dilemmas operating at different ends of the spectrum. For example, at one end there is a tendency towards subsuming the digital within the divine, and at the other an instrumental stance relating to how technology is deployed. Either of these stances could be said to ignore rather than acknowledge that the human itself is being changed as a result of the interactions with the digital.?
The book explores the following areas:?
?· Where is God to be found or present in the postdigital condition??
· What are the implications of the postdigital condition for spirituality and indeed for the activity of God through the Holy Spirit??
· How do concepts of transhumanism or posthumanism effect understandings of the incarnation??
· Does the doctrine of the Trinity need revisiting in the light of the digital as medium of relationship??
· Does Creation now include the postdigital???
· What of the Kingdom of God now that the kingdom of the Tech giants is so powerful all-consuming??
Arvustused
Postdigital Theologies: Technology, Belief, and Practice is a thought-provoking resource that enables readers to grasp the key contours of the emerging discipline of postdigital theology and raises pertinent questions that will help to shape future discussion. it is a commendable and highly valuable resource that should form part of the required reading for further work in this field. (Rebecca Dean, Postdigital Science and Education, Vol. 5 (3), 2023)
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Part I Postdigital Theologies |
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Landscapes of Postdigital Theologies |
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Process Theology Against Global Capitalism: Towards an Ecological Civilization |
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Communion and Community in a Postdigital World |
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Part II Postdigital Conundrums |
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Divine Becoming in the Postdigital |
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Unlikely Allies? Transhuman Dignity and Catholic Doctrine on Human Flourishing |
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Provoked by the Divine: The Event of the Postdigital Sublime |
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Digital Afterlife as a Technology of Queer Transformation |
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Race as a Problem for Black Transhuman Liberation Theology in a Postdigital Age |
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Part III Language, Machines, and Theologies |
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Postdigital Humans: Technology and Divine Design |
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Machine Learning and Spiritualities for Urban Living |
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Postdigital Theologies: A Closer Inspection of the Way Language Is Employed in Digital Discourses |
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Part IV The Impact of the Digital |
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When the Church Embraced a Posthuman Future: How Pastoral Negotiations with Technology During the Covid-19 Pandemic Resulted in an Implicit Acceptance of Posthumanism |
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God Made Better? How the Quest for Human-Level Artificial Intelligence Shapes Postdigital Divinity |
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Re-presencing Through Artistic Reverie: Implications for Postdigital Theology |
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Maggi Savin-Baden is Professor of Higher Education Research at the University of Worcester, UK. She has researched and evaluated staff and student experience of learning for over 20 years and gained funding in this area (Leverhulme Trust, JISC, Higher Education Academy, MoD). Maggi has a strong publication record of over 60 research publications and 21 books which reflect her research interests on the impact of innovative learning, digital fluency, cyber-influence, pedagogical agents, qualitative research methods, and problem-based learning. In her spare time, she runs, bakes, climbs, does triathlons and has recently taken up wild swimming. John Reader has degrees from Oxford (MA), Manchester (MPhil), and Wales, Bangor (PhD). A retired parish priest of over 40 years in ministry he is also a Senior Research Fellow of the William Temple Foundation; Honorary Senior Lecturer for the School of Education, University of Worcester, and Senior Tutor for the Christian Rural and Environmental Studies course based at Ripon College Cuddesdon. He has published 6 solo books and co-authored a further 6, plus 6 William Temple Foundation Tracts and various chapters and articles. His role with the William Temple Foundation includes curating the Ethical Futures Network which has met at Trinity College, Oxford. Johns recent publications include A Philosophy of Christian Materialism (with Baker and James) and Theology and New Materialism.
