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Author | : William Sims Bainbridge |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780739116784 |
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Across the Secular Abyss explains the cultural chasm we currently face, with a traditional religion-based society behind us, and an as-yet unknown secular society ahead. For over a century, scholars, social scientists, and policy makers have debated the apparent erosion of religious faith and wondered whether Western Civilization was turning its back on religion. Today, the issue has reached a crisis point. In the U.S., a new battle between faith and science has erupted within educational institutions, as political polarization progressively divides the country along religious lines. After a century-long truce in which religion and science implicitly agreed to leave each other alone, science is again invading the territory of religion, most obviously in cognitive science that is debunking religious notions of the human soul, and in the broad convergence of many branches of science into one that leaves few gaps where supernatural beliefs could survive. Religion, for its part, is resisting a range of emerging technologies that could transform human nature, namely human reproductive cloning and the kinds of transformative technologies advocated by the Transhumanist movement. Although pure Atheism has little to offer people, and Atheists tend to be people lacking in social obligations, entirely new possibilities are offered by emerging technologies such as computer emulation of human personalities.
Author | : William Sims Bainbridge |
Publisher | : Pearson Education |
Total Pages | : 355 |
Release | : 2007-06-27 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 0132797283 |
Download Nanoconvergence Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In Nanoconvergence , William Sims Bainbridge tours the future of science and technology in plain, nontechnical English. Bainbridge draws on an extraordinary breadth and depth of knowledge, based on his unique role at the epicenter of the nanoconvergence revolution. He successfully integrates insights from far-reaching scientific fields into a compelling human story—offering powerful insights you can use to plan your career, seek new investment opportunities, or simply understand what's coming next. Discover new breakthroughs in measuring, manipulating, and organizing matter at the nanoscale and the implications of those advances See why science fiction's view of nanotechnology is wrong and why the truth is even more exciting Preview new technologies built on the principles of cognitive science and enabled by nanotechnology Learn how nanotechnology may save Moore's Law, allowing computers to double in power every year for the next two decades Discover why nanoconvergence may spark a renaissance in the social sciences Examine the potential impact of scientific and technological convergence on human society and diversity
Author | : W. Bainbridge |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2016-07-12 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1137490594 |
Download An Information Technology Surrogate for Religion Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book demonstrates principles of Ancestor Veneration Avatars (AVAs), by running avatars based on eleven deceased members of one family through ten highly diverse virtual worlds from the violent Defiance to the intellectual Uru: Myst Online, from the early EverQuest to the recent Elder Scrolls Online.
Author | : Luppicini, Rocci |
Publisher | : IGI Global |
Total Pages | : 874 |
Release | : 2012-10-31 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 1466622121 |
Download Handbook of Research on Technoself: Identity in a Technological Society Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"This book provides insights to better enhance the understanding of technology's widespread intertwinement with human identity within an advancing technological society"--Provided by publisher.
Author | : Vít Šisler |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2017-11-28 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1315518325 |
Download Methods for Studying Video Games and Religion Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Game studies has been an understudied area within the emerging field of digital media and religion. Video games can reflect, reject, or reconfigure traditionally held religious ideas and often serve as sources for the production of religious practices and ideas. This collection of essays presents a broad range of influential methodological approaches that illuminate how and why video games shape the construction of religious beliefs and practices, and also situates such research within the wider discourse on how digital media intersect with the religious worlds of the 21st century. Each chapter discusses a particular method and its theoretical background, summarizes existing research, and provides a practical case study that demonstrates how the method specifically contributes to the wider study of video games and religion. Featuring contributions from leading and emerging scholars of religion and digital gaming, this book will be an invaluable resource for scholars in the areas of digital culture, new media, religious studies, and game studies across a wide range of disciplines.
Author | : Joseph O. Baker |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2015-09-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1479867411 |
Download American Secularism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A rapidly growing number of Americans are embracing life outside the bounds of organized religion. Although America has long been viewed as a fervently Christian nation, survey data show that more and more Americans identify as "not religious." American Secularism documents how changes to American society have fueled these shifts in the (non)religious landscape and examines the diverse and dynamic world of secular Americans. Baker and Smith offer a framework for understanding nonreligious belief systems as worldviews in their own right, rather than merely as negations of religion. Drawing on multiple sources of empirical data, this volume explores how people make meaning outside of organized religion, outlines multiple expressions of secular identity, and connects these self-expressions to patterns of family formation, socialization, social class, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. Further, the authors demonstrate how shifts in secularisms reflect changes in the political meanings of religion in American culture. Ultimately, American Secularism offers a more comprehensive sociological understanding of worldviews beyond traditional religion. -- from back cover.
Author | : Peter Clarke |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 1063 |
Release | : 2011-02-04 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0191557528 |
Download The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Religion Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Religion draws on the expertise of an international team of scholars providing both an entry point into the sociological study and understanding of religion and an in-depth survey into its changing forms and content in the contemporary world. The role and impact of religion and spirituality on the politics, culture, education and health in the modern world is rigorously discussed and debated. The study of the sociology of religion forges interdisciplinary links to explore aspects of continuity and change in the contemporary interface between society and religion. Using a combination of theoretical, methodological and content-led approaches, the fifty-seven contributors collectively emphasise the complex relationships between religion and aspects of life from scientific research to law, ecology to art, music to cognitive science, crime to institutional health care and more. The developing character of religion, irreligion and atheism and the impact of religious diversity on social cohesion are explored. An overview of current scholarship in the field is provided in each themed chapter with an emphasis on encouraging new thinking and reflection on familiar and emergent themes to stimulate further debate and scholarship. The resulting essay collection provides an invaluable resource for research and teaching in this diverse discipline.
Author | : Amoretti, Francesco |
Publisher | : IGI Global |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2009-03-31 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1605662550 |
Download Electronic Constitution: Social, Cultural, and Political Implications Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Provides analysis of the relationship between digital information technologies and politics, relating these issues to the historical system transformation.
Author | : John F. Brinster |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 513 |
Release | : 2011-01-06 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1456826840 |
Download The Precarious Human Role In a Mechanistic Universe Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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Author | : William Sims Bainbridge |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2011-09-06 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 0857299042 |
Download The Virtual Future Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The newest communication technologies are profoundly changing the world's politics, economies, and cultures, but the specific implications of online game worlds remain mysterious. The Virtual Future employs theories and methods from social science to explore nine very different virtual futures: The Matrix Online, Tabula Rasa, Anarchy Online, Entropia Universe, Star Trek Online, EVE Online, Star Wars Galaxies, World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade, and The Chronicles of Riddick. Each presents a different picture of how technology and society could evolve in coming centuries, but one theme runs through all of them, the attempt to escape the Earth and seek new destinies among the stars. Four decades after the last trip to the moon, a new conception of spaceflight is emerging. Rather than rockets shooting humans across vast physical distances to sterile rocks that lack the resources to sustain life, perhaps robot space probes and orbiting telescopes will glean information about the universe, that humans can then experience inside computer-generated environments much closer to home. All nine of these fantastically rich multiplayer masterpieces have shown myriads of people that really radical alternatives to contemporary society could exist, and has served as a laboratory for examining the consequences. Each is a prototype of new social forms, a utopian subculture, and a simulation of technologies that have yet to be invented. They draw upon several different traditions of science fiction and academic philosophy, and they were created in several nations. By comparing these nine role-playing fantasies, we can better consider what kind of world we want to inhabit in the real future.