Bringing together empirical cultural and media studies of religion
and critical social theory, Technologies of Religion: Spheres of
the sacred in a post-secular modernity investigates powerful
entanglement of religion and new media technologies taking place
today, taking stock of the repercussions of digital technology and
culture on various aspects of religious life and contemporary
culture more broadly. Making the argument that religion and new
media technologies come together to create "spheres"-environments
produced by an architecture of digital technologies of all sorts,
from projection screens to social networking sites, the book
suggests that prior social scientific conceptions of religious
worship, participation, community and membership are being recast.
Using the case of the strain of American Christianity called
"multi-site," an emergent and growing church-model that has begun
to win favor largely among Protestants in the last decade, the book
details and examines the way in which this new mode of religiosity
bridges the realms of the technological and the physical. Lastly,
the book situates and contextualizes these developments within the
larger theoretical concerns regarding the place of religion in
contemporary capitalism. Technologies of Religion: Spheres of the
sacred in a post-secular modernity offers an important contribution
to the study of religion, media, technology and culture in a
post-secular world.
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