SPIRITUALITY AND TECHNOLOGY: A THREEFOLD PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTION.
Despite the prominent role that technology plays in twenty‐first‐century societies, the intersections between spirituality and technology have been poorly analyzed.…
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The Financial Millennium.
As a financial technology with a millenarian attitude, cryptocurrencies were bound to produce their own heretics and schismatics. Communicating over…
Three-Legged Stool: A Peace Education Framework for Weaving Together Spirituality, Science, and Technology.
Technological advancements and political-economic shifts are necessary to meaningfully address climate change. However, there is a difference between addressing climate…
AN ENERGY PRIMER: FROM THERMODYNAMICS TO THEOLOGY.
Scientific, technological, ethical, and religious issues confronting the human prospect are emerging as we encounter the inevitable shift from fossil…
The Ambitions of Wizards and the Warnings of Prophets: Religious Guidance on Climate Change?
Secular wizardry and secular prophecy are two responses to climate change. Secular wizardry involves implementing technological solutions. Prophecy involves demanding…
Perverse Attraction: Idolatry, Pornography, and the Making of Infrastructure.
The making of novel infrastructure often involves some kind of faith. This article considers a pair of experiments in the…
RETHINKING THE SECULAR: SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND RELIGION TODAY.
Contemporary tensions between science and religion cannot simply be seen as a manifestation of an eternal tension between reason and…
THE SACRED, NATURE, AND TECHNOLOGY.
Bronislaw Szerszynski's Nature, Technology and the Sacred prompts a short reflection on the meaning of “the sacred. ” Although it…
REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THEOLOGICAL RESPONSES IN CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM.
Reproductive medical technology has revolutionized the natural order of human procreation. Accordingly, some have celebrated its advent as a new…
EXISTENTIAL HOPE AND EXISTENTIAL DESPAIR IN AI APOCALYPTICISM AND TRANSHUMANISM.
Drawing on observations from on‐ and offline fieldwork among transhumanists and artificial superintelligence/singularity‐focused groups, this article will explore an anthropology…
GOD VERSUS TECHNOLOGY? SCIENCE, SECULARITY, AND THE THEOLOGY OF TECHNOLOGY.
In debate with John Caiazza, we clarify the meaning of the terms technology and secular, arguing that technology is not…
THE DEVIL IN TECHNOLOGIES: RUSSIAN ORTHODOX NEOCONSERVATISM VERSUS SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS.
One of the interesting aspects of Russian self‐definition in opposition to the West is its attitude toward Western science. Russian…
ATHENS, JERUSALEM, AND THE ARRIVAL OF TECHNO-SECULARISM.
Western civilization historically has tried to balance secular knowledge with revealed religion. Science is the modern world's version of secular…
Perspectives on Techno-science and Human Nature.
The depiction of human identity in the pop-science futurology of engineer/inventor Ray Kurzweil, the speculative robotics of Carnegie Mellon roboticist…