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Unnatural Theology: Religion, Art and Media after the Death of God (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781350064690)
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xThe failure of secular modernity to deliver on its promise of progress and enlightenment leaves a void that religion is rushing to fill. Yet what kind of religious thinking and doing can be adequate to our posthuman condition? And how can we avoid either embracing religious fundamentalism and fantasy or remaining mired in hopeless atheistic nihilism?
In Unnatural Theology Charlie Gere provides ways of thinking about the possibilities of religion and theology in the context of our highly technologized postmodernity. Taking its cue from a wide range of thinkers, from John Ruskin and Alfred North Whitehead, to Jacques Derrida, Judith Butler, Giorgio Agamben, Simon Critchley, Catherine Keller, Bruno Latour, and Timothy Morton, and artists such as Marcel Duchamp and Richard Hamilton, and films including The Incredible Shrinking Man, the book seeks the remnants of theology and religion in the realms of technology and media, and also art, as the basis of potential new religious thinking.
Through an interdisciplinary engagement with these thinkers and artists it develops the notion of an unnatural theology as the basis of a new kind of religious thought that does not insult our intelligence.
Author: Charlie Gere
ISBN-10: 1350064696
ISBN-13: 9781350064690
Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
Language: English
Published: 12/13/2018
Pages: 200
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.30w x 0.70d
Review Citation(s):
Choice 09/01/2019
In Unnatural Theology Charlie Gere provides ways of thinking about the possibilities of religion and theology in the context of our highly technologized postmodernity. Taking its cue from a wide range of thinkers, from John Ruskin and Alfred North Whitehead, to Jacques Derrida, Judith Butler, Giorgio Agamben, Simon Critchley, Catherine Keller, Bruno Latour, and Timothy Morton, and artists such as Marcel Duchamp and Richard Hamilton, and films including The Incredible Shrinking Man, the book seeks the remnants of theology and religion in the realms of technology and media, and also art, as the basis of potential new religious thinking.
Through an interdisciplinary engagement with these thinkers and artists it develops the notion of an unnatural theology as the basis of a new kind of religious thought that does not insult our intelligence.
Author: Charlie Gere
ISBN-10: 1350064696
ISBN-13: 9781350064690
Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
Language: English
Published: 12/13/2018
Pages: 200
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.30w x 0.70d
Review Citation(s):
Choice 09/01/2019
By Charlie Gere
xCharlie Gere is a Professor of Media Theory and History in the Lancaster Institute for Contemporary Arts, Lancaster University, UK. He is author of Digital Culture (2002/2008), Art, Time and Technology (2006), and Community without Community in Digital Culture (2012), and co-editor of White Heat Cold Logic (2009), and Art Practice in a Digital Culture (2010).
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