How Church Online During the Covid-19 Pandemic Created Space for a Posthuman Worldview
Posthumanism argues that humanity is in an evolving state of existence, and the human form is simply one of many stages in an evolutionary process driven by technology towards greater transcendence. In this article I argue that religion-technology and human-technology narratives closely reflect, and...
| Published in: | Concilium |
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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SCM Press
2021
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Concilium
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Post-humanism
/ Church
/ Technology
/ Religion
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism NBE Anthropology NBN Ecclesiology |
| Further subjects: | B
COVID-19 pandemic
B Catholic Church |
| Summary: | Posthumanism argues that humanity is in an evolving state of existence, and the human form is simply one of many stages in an evolutionary process driven by technology towards greater transcendence. In this article I argue that religion-technology and human-technology narratives closely reflect, and are connected to, dominant versions of posthumanism presented within popular media. By reflecting on these two sets of narrative frameworks, through the language used by religious groups to justify their embrace of technology during the COVID-19 pandemic I show how current discussions of religion-technology draw on broader discourses about the nature of humanity and technology in the created world. |
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| ISSN: | 0010-5236 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Concilium
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