Beschreibung:
How do the powerful driving forces of religion and technology interact in the way that humans act towards and within the natural world? Deane-Drummond, Bergmann and Szerszynski are concerned with understanding the complex relation between technology and religious belief in their intersections with the natural world. Working from both theoretical and practical contexts by using newly emerging case studies, including geo-engineering and soil carbon technologies, this volume breaks new ground by engaging theological, scientific, philosophical and cultural aspects of the technology/religion/nature nexus.
Introduction; I: Theories; 1: Human Responsibility for Extra-Human Nature; 2: Technology and the Humanisation of Nature; 3: Artefactualising the Sacred; 4: Technology in a Postnatural Condition? Concepts of Nature and Meanings of Technology 1; II: Religious Narratives; 5: Forbidden Fruit; 6: Technology and Iconography; 7: 'Millions of Machines are Already Roaring'; 8: The Technologisation of Life; III: Practices; 9: Re-Inventing Homemaking; 10: Redeeming the Climate; 11: Resilience Techniques; 12: Miraculous Engineering and the Climate Emergency; IV: Synthesis; 13: The Twilight of the Machines