Title God and the chip : religion and the culture of technology / William A. Stahl.

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Waterloo, Ont. : Published for the Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion = Corporation Canadienne des Sciences Religieuses by Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c1999.

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University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location	303.483 S781G	Check Shelf

Description	185 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series	Editions SR ; v. 24
	Editions SR ; v. 24.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	A critique of technological mysticism. Technological mysticism ; Prophets of the third age ; The masculine machine ; Venerating the black box ; Faust's bargain -- Redemptive technology. Two philosophers and a metallurgist ; Technology in the good society.
Access	Online version licensed for access by U. of T. users.
Summary	"Our ancestors saw the material world as alive, and they often personified nature. Today we claim to be realists. But in reality we are not paying attention to the symbols and myths hidden in technology. Beneath much of our talk about computers and the Internet, claims William A. Stahl, is an unacknowledged mysticism, an implicit religion. By not acknowledging this mysticism, we have become critically short of ethical and intellectual resources with which to understand and confront changes brought on by technology."--Jacket.
Subject	Technology -- Religious aspects.
	Information technology -- Social aspects.
	Informationstechnik (DE-588)4026926-7
	Religion (DE-588)4049396-9
	Kultur (DE-588)4125698-0
	Mystizismus (DE-588)4114660-8
	Information technology -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst00973131
	Technology -- Religious aspects. (OCoLC)fst01145180
	Informationstechnik.
	Religion.
	Kultur.
	Mystizismus.
Added Author	Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion.
ISBN	0889203210 (pbk.)
	9780889203211

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