Nature, technology, and the sacred /
"This 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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Malden, MA :
Blackwell Pub.,
2005.
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| Series: | Religion and spirituality in the modern world.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "This 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."--Jacket |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xviii, 222 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-209) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780470774311 0470774312 1405137770 9781405137775 9780631236030 0631236031 9780631236047 063123604X |