Religion And Technology In India

Author : Knut A. Jacobsen,Kristina Myrvold
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351204774

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Religion and Technology in India by Knut A. Jacobsen,Kristina Myrvold Pdf

Religion tends to flourish when technological developments create new possibilities for communication and representation, and simultaneously change as a consequence of these developments. This book explores intersections between religion and technology in India, at the present and in the colonial past, and how various forms of techno-religious intersections transform and open up for new religious practices, discourses, communities, and institutions. With focus on Indian contexts and religions, it discusses various empirical and theoretical aspects of how technological innovations create, alter, and negotiate religious spaces, practices and authorities. The book provides rich and multifaceted empirical examples of different ways in which technological practices relate to meanings, ideas, and practices of religions. The techno-religious intersections generate several questions about authority and power, the politics and poetics of identity, community and place, and how religious agency, information, and experience are mediated, commodified, and adjusted to new demands of societies. The chapters explore the Hindu, Jain, and Sikh traditions in relation to new technological developments and media, such as photography, new means of visualization, TV serials, mobile phones, and online communication. The book will be of interest to academics studying modern and contemporary India and South Asia, and especially the role of religion and technology.

Author : Renny Thomas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000534313

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Science and Religion in India by Renny Thomas Pdf

This book provides an in-depth ethnographic study of science and religion in the context of South Asia, giving voice to Indian scientists and shedding valuable light on their engagement with religion. Drawing on biographical, autobiographical, historical, and ethnographic material, the volume focuses on scientists’ religious life and practices, and the variety of ways in which they express them. Renny Thomas challenges the idea that science and religion in India are naturally connected and argues that the discussion has to go beyond binary models of ‘conflict’ and ‘complementarity’. By complicating the understanding of science and religion in India, the book engages with new ways of looking at these categories.

Author : Tiruvenkata Rajendra Seshadri
Publisher : Waltair : Andhra University Press
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Culture
ISBN : UOM:39015059719917

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Advancement of Scientific and Religious Culture in India by Tiruvenkata Rajendra Seshadri Pdf

Author : Sriya Iyer
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674989290

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The Economics of Religion in India by Sriya Iyer Pdf

Religion is not a popular target for economic analysis. Yet the economist’s tools offer insights into how religious groups compete, deliver social services, and reach out to converts—how religions nurture and deploy market power. Sriya Iyer puts these tools to use in an expansive study of India, one of the world’s most religiously diverse nations.

Author : Manoj Kumar Das
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000374025

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Televising Religion in India by Manoj Kumar Das Pdf

This book explores how religion manifests itself in television. It focuses on how religious traditions, practices, and discourses have been incorporated into non-religious television programmes and how they bring both the community and the media into the fold of religion. The volume traces the cultural and institutional history of television in the state of Sikkim, India, to investigate how it became part of the cultural life of the communities. The author analyses three televised shows that captured the community's imagination and became ceremonial and religious engagement. Through these case studies, he highlights how rituals and myths function in mass media, how traditional institutions and religious practices redefine themselves through their association with the visual mass medium, and how identities based on religion, cultural tradition, and politics are reinforced, transformed, and amplified through television. The book further analyses the engagement of televised religion with audiences, its reach, relevance, and contents and its relationship with urbanity, tradition, and identity. This volume will be of interest to students and researchers of media and communication studies, cultural studies, religious studies, sociology, cultural anthropology, and history.

Author : William A. Stahl
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009-08-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781554587933

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God and the Chip by William A. Stahl Pdf

Our ancestors saw the material world as alive, and they often personified nature. Today we claim to be realists. But in reality we are not paying attention to the symbols and myths hidden in technology. Beneath much of our talk about computers and the Internet, claims William A. Stahl, is an unacknowledged mysticism, an implicit religion. By not acknowledging this mysticism, we have become critically short of ethical and intellectual resources with which to understand and confront changes brought on by technology.

Author : Lynn Townsend White
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1978-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0520035666

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Medieval Religion and Technology by Lynn Townsend White Pdf

Essays fra 1940-1975, med udgangspunkt i middelalderens teknologiske frembringelser, og videnskabsmænd.

Author : Yiftach Fehige
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317335238

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Science and Religion by Yiftach Fehige Pdf

This volume situates itself within the context of the rapidly growing interdisciplinary field that is dedicated to the study of the complex interactions between science and religion. It presents an innovative approach insofar as it addresses the Eurocentrism that is still prevalent in this field. At the same time it reveals how science develops in the space that emerges between the ‘local’ and the ‘global’. The volume examines a range of themes central to the interaction between science and religion: ‘Eastern’ thought within ‘Western’ science and religion and vice versa, and revisits thinkers who sought to integrate ‘Eastern’ and ‘Western’ thinking. It studies Zen Buddhism and its relation to psychotherapy, Islamic science, Vedantic science, atheism in India, and Darwinism, offering in turn new perspectives on a variety of approaches to nature. Part of the Science and Technology Studies series, this volume brings together original perspectives from major scholars from across disciplines and will be of great interest to scholars and students of science and technology studies, history of science, philosophy of science, religious studies, and sociology.

Author : Sharon Harper
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780889369207

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The Lab, the Temple, and the Market by Sharon Harper Pdf

[This book] meshes a discussion of development issues and processes with four different systems of religious beliefs: Hinduism, Christianity, Islam, and the Baha'i Faith. The authors - each a scientist as well as a person of faith - show how religious belief and personal faith can be deeply motivational and strikingly fruitful in scientific pursuits. Further, they emphasize how their faith has brought them a profound understanding of interconnectedness and compassion, and thus a wider perspective and greater sense of personal meaning to their research. -- Book jacket.

Author : Donald Eugene Smith
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400877782

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India as a Secular State by Donald Eugene Smith Pdf

Throughout India's history, religion has been the most powerful single factor in the development of her civilization. Today, despite her religious tradition, India is emerging as a secular state. In this book, Donald E. Smith explores the origin of the concept of secularization as it is found both in Indian culture and in the example of the western nations. He emphasizes the important role of secularization in India’s total democratic experiment and points out that the degree of its realization will undoubtedly affect the eventual character of democracy in India. In addition, the success or failure of the secular state in India cannot fail to influence the attitudes of her neighbors. Professor Smith considers the many aspects and implications of India’s attempt to secularize her government. Originally published in 1963. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Sarbeswar Sahoo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108416122

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Pentecostalism and Religious Conflict in Contemporary India by Sarbeswar Sahoo Pdf

Conversion and the shifting discourse of violence -- Spreading like fire: the growth of Pentecostalism among tribals -- Taking refuge in Christ: four narratives on religious conversion -- Becoming believers: Adivasi women and the Pentecostal church -- Encountering the alien: Hindutva politics and anti-Christian violence -- Beyond the competing projects of conversion

Author : Robert M. Geraci
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498577755

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Temples of Modernity by Robert M. Geraci Pdf

Geraci offers an investigation into the intersection of religion, science, and technology in scientific and engineering communities in India. Using historical and ethnographic methods, Geraci explores religion, science, and technology in politics, scientific uses of Hindu images and rituals, and Indian reflections on the future of humanity.

Author : Dr. S Radhakrishnan
Publisher : Orient Paperbacks
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9788122206722

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Religion, Science and Culture by Dr. S Radhakrishnan Pdf

A masterly review of the evolving relationship between religion, science and culture, and the need to create a spiritual unity which will transcend and sustain the material unity of the world order. 'Dr. Radhakrishnan's sweep is as wide as the world, and wider.' — Tribune 'This book is not only meant to promote interpeople understanding but to awaken mankind to the danger of extinction of homo sapiens by nuclear destruction, the abyss it has reached by spiritual involution.' — Times of India

Author : P. Koslowski
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2001-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1402001886

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Nature and Technology in the World Religions by P. Koslowski Pdf

This third volume in the series titled "A Discourse of the World Religions" addresses the question of the relationship to nature and the interpretation of technology in the world religions, posed at the World Exposition EXPO 2000 in Hanover, Germany, June 22-23, 2000. Contains 13 contributions written by international theology, philosophy, and religion scholars addressing topics including creation as cosmotheandric reality in Christianity; the relationship to nature and technology in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam; and naturalism and humanism in creation and construction in Hinduism. Lacks a subject index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : David Lewin
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781443825320

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Technology and the Philosophy of Religion by David Lewin Pdf

The last one hundred years has seen unimaginable technological progress transforming every aspect of human life. Yet we seem unable to shake a profound unease with the direction of modern technology and its ideological siblings, global capitalism and massive consumption. Philosophers such as Marcuse, Borgmann and especially Heidegger, have developed important analyses of technological society, however in this book David Lewin argues that their ideas have remained limited either by their secular context, or by the narrow conception of religion that they do allow. This study guides the reader along the newly formed paths of the philosophy of technology, arguing that where those paths come to an abrupt end, a religious discourse is needed to articulate the ultimate concerns that drive technological action. It calls for a meditation on the central insight of many religious traditions that, in an ultimate sense, we ‘know not what we do.’ To acknowledge that we know not what we do is the first step towards a theology of technology that draws upon insights from the mystical theological tradition, as well as from recent developments in the continental philosophy of religion.