This volume rethinks the work of Jacques Ellul (1912-1994) on the centenary of his birth, by presenting an overview of the current debates based on Ellul's insights. As one of the most significant twentieth-century thinkers about technology, Ellul was among the first thinkers to realize the importance of topics such as globalization, terrorism, communication technologies and ecology, and study them from a technological perspective.

Introduction: Ellul returns; Helena Mateus Jerónimo, José Luís Garcia and Carl Mitcham.- Part I. Civilization of Technique.- Chapter 1. How The Technological Society Became More Important in the United States than in France; Carl Mitcham.- Chapter 2. The Technological Society: Social Theory, McDonaldization and the Prosumer; George Ritzer.- Chapter 3. Are We Still Pursuing Efficiency? Interpreting Jacques Ellul's Efficiency Principle; Wha-Chul Son.- Chapter 4. Technological Acceleration and the "Ground Floor of Civilization"; Daniel Cérézuelle.- Chapter 5. Technological System and the Problem of Desymbolization; Yuk Hui.- Chapter 6. Against Environmental Protection? Ecological Modernization as "Technician Ecology"; Isabelle Lamaud.- Part II. Autonomous Technology.- Chapter 7. Propaganda and Dissociation from Truth; Langdon Winner.- Chapter 8. An Unseasonable Thinker: How Ellul Engages Cybercultural Criticism; Andoni Alonso.- Chapter 9. Fukushima: A Tsunami of Technological Order; José Luís Garcia and Helena Mateus Jerónimo.- Chapter 10. From the Contaminated Blood Affair to the Mediator Scandal: Public Health, Political Responsibility and Democracy; Patrick Troude-Chastenet.- Chapter 11. Homo Energeticus: Technological Rationality in the Alberta Tar Sands; Nathan Kowalsky and Randolph Haluza-DeLay.- Part III. Reason and Revelation.- Chapter 12. The Reception of Jacques Ellul's Thought in French Protestantism; Frédéric Rognon.- Chapter 13. Radically Religious: Ecumenical Roots of the Critique of Technological Society; Jennifer Karns Alexander.- Chapter 14. Truth, Reality and the Ten Commandments: Not for Theology Alone; Virginia W. Landgraf.- Chapter 15. Social Intolerability of the Christian Revelation: A Comparative Perspective on the Works of Jacques Ellul and Peter L. Berger; Andrei Ivan.- Chapter 16. Postmodernity, the Phenomenal Mistake: Sacred, Myth and Environment; Gregory Wagenfuhr.