[csaa-forum] Book Announcement: Technologies of Religion: Spheres of the Sacred in a Post-Secular Modernity (Routledge, 2016)

[Sam Han]

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Technologies of Religion: Spheres of the Sacred in a Post-secular Modernity (Routledge, 2016)
By Sam Han

Series: Routledge Research in Information Technology and Society

About the book
Bringing together empirical cultural and media studies of religion and critical social theory, Technologies of Religion: Spheres of the sacred in a post-secular modernity investigates powerful entanglement of religion and new media technologies taking place today, taking stock of the repercussions of digital technology and culture on various aspects of religious life and contemporary culture more broadly. Making the argument that religion and new media technologies come together to create "spheres"—environments produced by an architecture of digital technologies of all sorts, from projection screens to social networking sites, the book suggests that prior social scientific conceptions of religious worship, participation, community and membership are being recast. Using the case of the strain of American Christianity called "multi-site," an emergent and growing church-model that has begun to win favor largely among Protestants in the last decade, the book details and examines the way in which this new mode of religiosity bridges the realms of the technological and the physical. Lastly, the book situates and contextualizes these developments within the larger theoretical concerns regarding the place of religion in contemporary capitalism. Technologies of Religion: Spheres of the sacred in a post-secular modernity offers an important contribution to the study of religion, media, technology and culture in a post-secular world.

Table of contents
1. Technologies of Religion: An introduction 2. Disenchantment Revisited: Formations of the "secular" and "religious" in the technological discourse of modernity 3. From Cosmos to Sphere "Worlds" across religion and technology 4. (Atmo)sphere: The liturgical aesthetics of deterritorialized worship spaces 5. The Digital Milieu: The socialization of religions experience in church online 6. Is the Return of Religion the Return of Metaphysics? Or, the Renewed Spirit of Capitalism? 7. Conclusion

About the author
Sam Han is a Seoul-born, New York City-raised interdisciplinary social scientist, working in the areas of social and cultural theory, religion, new media and globalization. He is currently Assistant Professor of Sociology at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore and Adjunct Research Fellow at the Hawke Research Institute of the University of South Australia. He is author (with Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir) of Digital Culture and Religion in Asia (Routledge, 2015), Web 2.0 (Routledge, 2011), Navigating Technomedia: Caught in the Web (Rowman & Littlefield, 2007) and editor (with Daniel Chaffee) of The Race of Time: A Charles Lemert Reader (Routledge, 2010).

More info: https://www.routledge.com/products/9781138855861 <https://www.routledge.com/products/9781138855861>







Sam HAN 
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School of Humanities & Social Sciences  
Nanyang Technological University <http://www.ntu.edu.sg/> 
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Technologies of Religion: Spheres of the Sacred in a Post-secular Modernity (Routledge, 2016) <https://www.routledge.com/products/9781138855861>

Digital Culture and Religion in Asia (Routledge, 2015) <https://www.routledge.com/products/9780415521857> with Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir
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