Deus in machina
Subtitle: religion, technology, and the things in between
By: edited by Jeremy Stolow
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780823249800; 9780823249817
Subjects: Medicine; Religion and science; Religious aspects; Technology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Religion, technology, and the things in between / Jeremy Stolow; title: Calendar, clock, tower / John Durham Peters; title: Beating clock, oscillating string : vibrating time-sense between religion and Machine / Wolfgang Ernst; title: The electric touch machine miracle scam : body, technology, and the (dis)authentication of the pentecostal supernatural / Marleen de Witte; title: The spiritual nervous system : reflections on a magnetic cord designed for spirit communication / Jeremy Stolow; title: An empowered world : Buddhist medicine and the potency of prayer in Japan / Jason [[mac]]Ananda Josephson; title: Does submission to God's will preclude biotechnological intervention?; title: Lessons from Muslim dialysis patients in contemporary Egypt / Sherine F. Hamdy; title: The canary in the Gemeinschaft? disability, film, and the Jewish question / Faye Ginsburg; title: Thinking about Melville, religion, and machines that think / John Lardas Modern; title: Amazing stories : how science fiction sacralizes the secular / Peter Pels; title: Virtual vodou, actual practice : transfiguring the technological / Alexandra Boutros; title: TV St. Claire / Maria José A. de Abreu.