My dissertation is a comparison of the use of prayer, scripture, science education, and “high technology” in four religious high…
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Utopia now
Only when utopia is understood in the present continuous, as arriving without completion, can we make sense of the work…
Figuring American Spirituality
After attending a February 10th discussion with multimedia artist Laurie Anderson at Columbia University, Columbia Religion Professor Courtney Bender wrote…
Google, God, and the public
Google's attempt to bring its Street View service to Germany has met with strong opposition. Given the country's history, the…
Hours of unrelieved, humorless argument
Wars of Religion 2.0
Twitter and the death penalty
Earlier this week, The Washington Post's religion blog, "On Faith," posed a question regarding Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff's controversial tweet following the execution of convicted killer…
Talk: architecture, technology, and “mediated congregation”
Tomorrow at New York University's Institute for Public Knowledge, Erica Robles will present "The Crystal Cathedral Megachurch: Architecting the Rise…
Apple’s “technological religion”
While there has been much discussion at Immanent Frame on the merits and relevance of certain analytical categories for the…
On the seventh day you shall unplug
The New York Times reports that a "nonprofit think tank of hip, media-savvy Jewish professionals, based in New York" is…
“Theology After Google” conference
Mitchell Landsberg, of the Los Angeles Times, reports on a recent Claremont School of Theology conference about how new technologies…