Technofutures, nature, and the sacred
Subtitle: transdisciplinary perspectives
By: edited by Celia Deane-Drummond, Sigurd Bergmann and Bronislaw Szerszynski
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Farnham Surrey, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9781472444103; 9781472444110; 9781472444127
Subjects: Philosophy; Teknik; Nature; Natur; Naturen; Religious aspects; Technologie; Religion; Religiösa aspekter; Technology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-283) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I:; title: Theories --; title: Human responsibility for extra-human nature: an ethical approach to technofutures  -- Walther Ch. Zimmerli; title: Technology and the humanisation of nature: new resources for critical assessment  -- Maria Antonaccio; title: Artefactualising the sacred: restating the case for Martin Heidegger's 'hermeneutical' philosophy of technology  -- Fionn Bennett; title: Technology in a postnatural condition? Concepts of nature and meanings of technology  -- Peter Manley Scott -- Part II:; title: Religious narratives --; title: Forbidden fruit: wonder, religious narrative and the quest for the atomic bomb  -- Lisa H. Sideris; title: Technology and iconography: minding the logoi  -- Francis Van den Noortgaete; title: 'Millions of machines are already roaring': fetishised technology encountered by the life-giving spirit  -- Sigurd Bergmann; title: The technologisation of life: theology and the trans-human and trans-animal narratives of the post-animal  -- Celia Deane-Drummond -- Part III:; title: Practices --; title: Re-inventing homemaking: a necessary and ethical means of production in a post-growth, ecologically sustainable economy  -- David Gormley-O'Brien; title: Redeeming the climate: investigating a theological model of geoengineering  -- Forrest Clingerman; title: Resilience techniques: spiritual practices and customary economics within farming communities in Amanbaev Village, Kyrgyzstan  -- Zembira Inogamova-Hanbury; title: Miraculous engineering and the climate emergency: climate modification as divine economy  -- Matthew Kearnes -- Part IV:; title: Synthesis --; title: The twilight of machines -- Bronislaw Szerszynski.