Postdigital Theologies: Technology, Belief, and Practice

ISBN-13: 9783031094040 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022

Savin-Baden, Maggi

Opis

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?  

Spis treści

 Part 1 Postdigital theologies

Chapter 1  Introduction - Maggi Savin-Baden and John Reader

Chapter 2 Landscapes of Postdigital Theologies  

Chapter 3 Interview with Catherine Keller – Petar Jandric  

Chapter 4 Community and communion in a postdigital world – Andrew Braddock 

Chapter 5 The Generative and Explanatory Potential of the Bible within Postdigital Discourse - Rebecca Dean  

Part 2 Postdigital conundrums

Chapter 6 Divine Becoming in the Postdigital  - John Reader  

Chapter 7  Unlikely Allies? Transhuman Dignity and Catholic Theology on Flourishing

Alcibiades 

Chapter 8 Provoked by the Divine: The Event of the Postdigital Sublime  – Eric Trozzo 

Chapter 9 Queering Postdigital Presence: Digital Afterlife as a Technology of Queer Continuity and Transformation – Jack Slater 

Chapter 10 Untitled Steve Fuller  

Part 3 Language, machines and theologies 

Chapter 11 Postdigital Humans: Technology and Divine Design - Douglas Estes 

Chapter 12 Machine Learning and Spiritual Wisdom for Contemporary Urban Environments

- Paul Woods 

Chapter 13 Postdigital Theologies: A closer inspection of the way language is employed in digital discourses. – Simon Cross

Chapter 14 Sacramental Engines: Charles Babbage and the Elements of Postdigital Theology- Ryan Haecker  

Part 4 The impact of the digital 

Chapter 15 When the Church Embraced a Posthuman Future: How Pastoral Negotiations with Technology During the Covid-19 Pandemic Resulted in an Implicit Acceptance of Posthumanism - Heidi Campbell 

Chapter 16 God Made Better: How the Quest for Human-Level AI Reshapes Postdigital Divinity - Agana-Nsiire Agana 

Chapter 17- Curiosity as a spirit of religious transcendence in the postdigital and post-trans-humanism era – Paulo Quadros 

O autorze

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. John’s recent publications include A Philosophy of Christian Materialism (with Baker and James) and Theology and New Materialism.