Workshops Detail

Technology And Religion: Structural Affinities And Cultural Challenges

ESF Exploratory Workshop - SCH - SCSS

Convened by: Werner Jeanrond (UK), Ward Blanton (UK)

Location: 14-16 October 2009, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Keywords

Religious Transformation; Technical Embodiment; Post-secularization Thesis; Communicative Networks; Technology and Subjectivity.

Summary

Recent transformations of religious identities within Europe demand new conceptual models of the relationship between religion and communicative technologies. Challenging earlier assumptions that religion and technology stand in an antagonistic relationship, this network considers technologically induced spiritualities, the role of new media in the resurgence of religion, and the social and philosophical implications of the way religion and communicative technologies are more intimately intertwined than we have previously imagined.

Preliminary programme and Provisional list of participant

(for information purposes only - this meeting is not open to the public)

  • Preliminary programme and List of Participants  

Contacts

Convenors:

Werner Jeanrond
 Dept. of Theology and Religious Studies
Faculty of Arts
University of Glasgow
 4, The Square
Glasgow, G12 8QQ
United Kingdom
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Ward Blanton
 Theology and Religious Studies Dept
Faculty of Arts
University of Glasgow
 Glasgow
United Kingdom

ESF Contact:

Mrs.ValerieAllspach-KiechelE-Mail
Senior Administrator - Corporate Science Operations