About Religion
Economies of Faith in Virtual Culture
About Religion
Economies of Faith in Virtual Culture
Traveling from high culture to pop culture and back again, About Religion approaches cyberspace and Las Vegas through Hegel and Kant and reads Melville’s The Confidence-Man through the film Wall Street. As astonishing juxtapositions and associations proliferate, formerly uncharted territories of virtual culture disclose theological vestiges, showing that faith in contemporary culture is as unavoidable as it is elusive.
The most accessible presentation of Taylor’s revolutionary ideas to date, About Religion gives us a dazzling and disturbing vision of life at the end of the old and beginning of the new millennium.
304 pages | 38 halftones | 6 x 9 | © 1999
Culture Studies:
Philosophy: General Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion
Religion: Christianity, Philosophy of Religion, Theology, and Ethics
Table of Contents
1. Discrediting God
2. Denegating God
3. Politics of Theory
4. Minding the Brain
5. Terminal Condition
6. Christianity and the Capitalism of Spirit
7. The Virtual Kingdom
8. Apprehension
9. Learning Curves
10. Indifference
Notes
References for Illustrations
Index
Awards
American Academy of Religion: American Academy of Religion Awards for Excellence
Shortlist
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