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Mediating Piety

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A timely and groundbreaking work, here is a comprehensive analysis of the interactions between religion and technology in Asia today. How does the use of technology affect people's experience of s...
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  • 29 September 2009
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A timely and groundbreaking work, here is a comprehensive analysis of the interactions between religion and technology in Asia today. How does the use of technology affect people's experience of spirituality and the formation of religious identity and community? How do developments in the latest technological breakthroughs such as the Internet influence the ways people constitute themselves as social beings, and how does it shape their experience of the sacred and the divine? Conversely, to what extent, and in what ways do religious beliefs and practices shape people’s attitude towards new technology and its deployment? Combining wide-ranging empirical investigations and sophisticated theoretical reflections, this book demonstrates how the technological and the religious often intersect with the political, thereby elucidating the complex relationships between spirituality, social and identity formation, sovereignty and power.
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Price: $149.00
Pages: 240
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Social Sciences in Asia
Publication Date: 29 September 2009
ISBN: 9789004178397
Format: Paperback
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"This is a timely volume and joins an important literature on religious mediation, bringing Asian contexts into this conversation." – Carla Jones, University of Colorado, in: Religion Vol. 41, No. 2 (2011) pp. 299-303
Francis Khek Gee Lim, Ph.D (2004) in Anthropology, SOAS, teaches at the Division of Sociology, Nanyang Technological University. He is the author of Imagining the Good Life (Brill, 2008), and co-editor of Christianity and the State in Asia (Routledge, 2009).