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Record Nr.

UNINA9910143265903321

Autore

Szerszynski Bronislaw

Titolo

Nature Technology and the Sacred [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, : Wiley, 2008

ISBN

1-280-19769-2

9786610197699

0-470-70767-4

0-470-77431-2

1-4051-3777-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (242 p.)

Collana

Religion and Spirituality in the Modern World

Disciplina

202.4

202/.4

291.175

Soggetti

Nature

Religion - General

Religion

Philosophy & Religion

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Part I Modernity, Nature and the Sacred; 1 The Disenchantment of the World; 2 Nature, Secularization and the Transformation of the Sacred; Part II Nature and Technology; 3 Nature, Science and the Death of Pan; 4 Modern Technology and the Sacred; Part III The Body and its Environment; 5 The Body, Healing and the Sacred; 6 The Birth of 'the Environment'; Part IV Against the Technological Condition; 7 The Politicization of Nature; 8 Nature, Virtue and Everyday Life; 9 Nature and Public Speech; Part V The Future of the Sacred; 10 The Global Sacred

11 Nature, Technology and the Sacred: a PostscriptNotes; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In a critical reinterpretation of the idea of the 'disenchantment of nature', this provocative and timely book argues that contemporary



ideas and practices concerning nature and technology remain closely bound up with religious ways of thinking and acting. Using examples from North America, Europe and elsewhere, many derived from original research, it reinterprets a range of 'secular' phenomena in terms of their conditioning by a complex series of transformations of the sacred in Western history. The contemporary practices of environmental politics, technological risk behaviour, alternative me