LEADER 05048nam 2200757 a 450 001 9910453142503321 005 20211006012509.0 010 $a0-8232-4981-6 010 $a0-8232-5248-5 010 $a0-8232-5024-5 010 $a0-8232-4983-2 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823249831 035 $a(CKB)2550000001126228 035 $a(PromptCat)99951282887 035 $a(MH)013509625-1 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000755471 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11496688 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000755471 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10730062 035 $a(PQKB)11283662 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000124826 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3239754 035 $a(OCoLC)819379514 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse19487 035 $a(DE-B1597)555076 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823249831 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3239754 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10611570 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL526891 035 $a(OCoLC)859537003 035 $a(OCoLC)1178769162 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1480925 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001126228 100 $a20120711d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aDeus in machina$b[electronic resource] $ereligion, technology, and the things in between /$fedited by Jeremy Stolow 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cFordham University Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (x, 354 p. )$cill. ; 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8232-4980-8 311 $a1-299-95640-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aReligion, technology, and the things in between / Jeremy Stolow -- Calendar, clock, tower / John Durham Peters -- Beating clock, oscillating string : vibrating time-sense between religion and Machine / Wolfgang Ernst -- The electric touch machine miracle scam : body, technology, and the (dis)authentication of the pentecostal supernatural / Marleen de Witte -- The spiritual nervous system : reflections on a magnetic cord designed for spirit communication / Jeremy Stolow -- An empowered world : Buddhist medicine and the potency of prayer in Japan / Jason A?nanda Josephson -- Does submission to God's will preclude biotechnological intervention? -- Lessons from Muslim dialysis patients in contemporary Egypt / Sherine F. Hamdy -- The canary in the Gemeinschaft? disability, film, and the Jewish question / Faye Ginsburg -- Thinking about Melville, religion, and machines that think / John Lardas Modern -- Amazing stories : how science fiction sacralizes the secular / Peter Pels -- Virtual vodou, actual practice : transfiguring the technological / Alexandra Boutros -- TV St. Claire / Maria Jose? A. de Abreu. 330 $aThe essays in this volume explore how two domains of human experience and action?religion and technology?are implicated in each other. Contrary to commonsense understandings of both religion (as an ?otherworldly? orientation) and technology (as the name for tools, techniques, and expert knowledges oriented to ?this? world), the contributors to this volume challenge the grounds on which this division has been erected in the first place.What sorts of things come to light when one allows religion and technology to mingle freely? In an effort to answer that question, Deus in Machina embarks upon an interdisciplinary voyage across diverse traditions and contexts where religion and technology meet: from the design of clocks in medieval Christian Europe, to the healing power of prayer in premodern Buddhist Japan, to 19th-century Spiritualist devices for communicating with the dead, to Islamic debates about kidney dialysis in contemporary Egypt, to the work of disability activists using documentary film to reimagine Jewish kinship, to the representation of Haitian Vodou on the Internet, among other case studies.Combining rich historical and ethnographic detail with extended theoretical reflection, Deus in Machina outlines new directions for the study of religion and/as technology that will resonate across the human sciences, including religious studies, science and technology studies, communication studies, history, anthropology, and philosophy. 606 $aTechnology$xReligious aspects 606 $aMedicine$xReligious aspects 606 $aReligion and science 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aTechnology$xReligious aspects. 615 0$aMedicine$xReligious aspects. 615 0$aReligion and science. 676 $a201/.66 701 $aStolow$b Jeremy$f1965-$01029599 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910453142503321 996 $aDeus in machina$92446118 997 $aUNINA 999 $aThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress