Nature, Technology and the Sacred Contributor(s): Szerszynski, Bronislaw (Author) |
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ISBN: 0631236031 ISBN-13: 9780631236030 Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell OUR PRICE: $118.70 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2005 Annotation: 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, 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 medicine, vegetarianism and ethical consumption take on new significance as sites of struggle between different sacral orderings. "Nature, Technology and the Sacred" introduces a radically new direction for today's critical discourse concerning nature and technology - one that reinstates it as a moment within the ongoing religious history of the West.
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Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christian Rituals & Practice - General - Religion | Religion & Science - Religion | Faith |
Dewey: 202.4 |
LCCN: 2004024181 |
Series: Religion and Spirituality in the Modern World |
Physical Information: 1.08" H x 6.82" W x 9.64" (1.47 lbs) 242 pages |
Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian |
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Publisher Description: This book argues that contemporary ideas and practices concerning nature and technology are radically conditioned by the religious history of the West. |