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Bronislaw Szerszynski - Nature, Technology and the Sacred - 9780631236030 - V9780631236030
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Nature, Technology and the Sacred

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Description for Nature, Technology and the Sacred Hardcover. Argues that contemporary ideas and practices concerning nature and technology remain closely bound up with religious ways of thinking and acting. This work reinterprets a range of 'secular' phenomena in terms of their conditioning by a complex series of transformations of the sacred in Western history. Series: Religion and Spirituality in the Modern World. Num Pages: 240 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 159 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
Nature, Technology and the Sacred

‘This book will be an obligatory reference point for those wishing to locate the contemporary debates about how we should live with technology and nature within the longer scope of Western history.’
Ulrich Beck, Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich

‘Szerszynski draws on several centuries of Western religious and philosophical thought to rebut the idea that modernity’s love affair with technology has taken the sacred out of nature. His provocative, wide-ranging study will broaden the horizons of environmental scholarship as well as science and technology studies.’
Sheila Jasanoff, Harvard University

‘This book will stand for many ... Read more

This provocative and timely book argues that contemporary ideas and practices concerning nature and technology remain closely bound up with religious ways of thinking and acting. Using examples from North America, Europe and elsewhere, it reinterprets a range of ‘secular’ phenomena in terms of their conditioning by a complex series of transformations of the sacred in Western history. The contemporary practices of environmental politics, technological risk behaviour, alternative medicine, vegetarianism and ethical consumption take on new significance as sites of struggle between different sacral orderings.

Nature, Technology and the Sacred introduces a radically new direction for today’s critical discourse concerning nature and technology – one that reinstates it as a moment within the ongoing religious history of the West. Show Less

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Series
Religion and Spirituality in the Modern World
Number of Pages
242
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780631236030
SKU
V9780631236030
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About Bronislaw Szerszynski
Bronislaw Szerszynski is Lecturer in Environment and Culture at the Centre for the Study of Environmental Change and the Institute for Environment, Philosophy and Public Policy at Lancaster University. He is the co-editor of Nature Performed: Environment, Culture and Performance (Blackwell, 2003), Re-Ordering Nature: Theology, Society and the New Genetics (2003) and Risk, Environment and Modernity: Towards a New Ecology ... Read more

Reviews for Nature, Technology and the Sacred
"With this book Szerszynski makes a highly original contribution to European social theory of the politics of nature and reflexive modernization. Paddling hard against the main currents of thought in this area, he doggedly follows his hunch - that the contemporary politicization of nature and technology is by no means a sign of our final departure from the horizon of ... Read more

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