Asian Religions, Technology and Science
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-31928-8 (ISBN)
Through its various chapters, the collection provides an examination of the use of modern scientific concepts in the theologies of new religious organizations, and challenges the traditional notions of space by Western scientific conceptions in the 19th century. It looks at the synthesis of ritual elements and medical treatment in China and India, and at new funeral practices in Japan. It discusses the intersections between contemporary Western Buddhism, modern technology, and global culture, and goes on to look at women’s rights in contemporary Pakistani media. Using case studies grounded in carefully delineated temporal and regional frameworks, chapters are grouped in two sections; one on religion and science, and another on religion and technology.
Illustrating the manifold perspectives and the potential for further research and discussion, this book is an important contribution to the studies of Asian Religion, Science and Technology, and Religion and Philosophy.
István Keul is Professor in the Study of Religions at the University of Bergen, Norway. His areas of research include various aspects of the history and sociology of South Asian religions. He is the author of a monograph on the Hindu deity Hanuman and has edited volumes on tantra, Yoginis and Banaras.
1. Introduction: Asian religions, technology and science Part 1 Asian religions and science 2. ‘True facts of the world.’ Media of scientific space and the transformations of cosmo-geography in 19th-century Buddhist-Christian encounters 3. An illusion of conciliation: religion and science in Debendranath and Rabindranath Tagore 4.Vedic science, modern science, and reason 5. Is the earth round? Traditional cosmography and modern science in Jainism 6. On ‘science’ in ‘the science of happiness’: the Japanese new religious movement Kofuku no kagaku, occult ‘science,’ and ‘spiritual technology’ 7. The synthesis of religious and medical healing rituals in the Song 8. Medical treatments described in the ritual texts of Kerala: interaction between religion and science Part 2 Asian religions and technology 9. New technology and change in the Hindu tradition: the Internet in historical perspective 10. Japanese new religions and the social networks: toward a 2.0 interactive religious discourse? 11. #Hashtag meditation, cyborg Buddhas, and enlightenment as an epic win: Buddhism, technology, and the new social media 12. The technology of tradition: Javed Ahmad Ghamidi and the contemporary Pakistani media’s participatory construction of women’s shari’a 13. New technologies and new funeral practices in contemporary Japan 14. Producing deities? Ritual as technology
| Erscheinungsdatum | 07.09.2018 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Routledge Studies in Asian Religion and Philosophy |
| Zusatzinfo | 2 Line drawings, black and white; 8 Halftones, black and white |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 399 g |
| Themenwelt | Schulbuch / Wörterbuch |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
| Technik | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-138-31928-7 / 1138319287 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-138-31928-8 / 9781138319288 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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