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Bible --- Bijbel --- Christendom --- Christianisme --- Islam --- Jodendom --- Judaïsme --- Theology. --- History. --- Theology --- History --- Comparative religions --- 22 --- Biblia

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Christianity and other religions --- Philosophy, Modern --- Christianisme --- Philosophie --- Judaism. --- Relations --- Judaïsme --- Rosenzweig, Franz, --- Cosmology --- Religion --- Philosophy, Jewish. --- Philosophy. --- Judaïsme --- Comparative Religions --- Philosophy --- Religion - Philosophy.

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The essays in this volume explore how two domains of human experience and action—religion and technology—are implicated in each other. Contrary to commonsense understandings of both religion (as an “otherworldly” orientation) and technology (as the name for tools, techniques, and expert knowledges oriented to “this” world), the contributors to this volume challenge the grounds on which this division has been erected in the first place.What sorts of things come to light when one allows religion and technology to mingle freely? In an effort to answer that question, Deus in Machina embarks upon an interdisciplinary voyage across diverse traditions and contexts where religion and technology meet: from the design of clocks in medieval Christian Europe, to the healing power of prayer in premodern Buddhist Japan, to 19th-century Spiritualist devices for communicating with the dead, to Islamic debates about kidney dialysis in contemporary Egypt, to the work of disability activists using documentary film to reimagine Jewish kinship, to the representation of Haitian Vodou on the Internet, among other case studies.Combining rich historical and ethnographic detail with extended theoretical reflection, Deus in Machina outlines new directions for the study of religion and/as technology that will resonate across the human sciences, including religious studies, science and technology studies, communication studies, history, anthropology, and philosophy.

Technology --- Medicine --- Religion and science. --- Religious aspects. --- comparative religions. --- cross-cultural perspective. --- history of technology. --- philosophy of technology. --- religion and biopower. --- religion. --- science in cultural context. --- science. --- technology.

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Bringing to light a hidden chapter in the history of modern Judaism, Shamanic Trance in Modern Kabbalah explores the shamanic dimensions of Jewish mysticism. Jonathan Garb integrates methods and models from the social sciences, comparative religion, and Jewish studies to offer a fresh view of the early modern kabbalists and their social and psychological contexts. Through close readings of numerous texts-some translated here for the first time-Garb draws a more complete picture of the kabbalists than previous depictions, revealing them to be as concerned with deeper states of consciousness as they were with study and ritual. Garb discovers that they developed physical and mental methods to induce trance states, visions of heavenly mountains, and transformations into animals or bodies of light. To gain a deeper understanding of the kabbalists' shamanic practices, Garb compares their experiences with those of mystics from other traditions as well as with those recorded by psychologists such as Milton Erickson and Carl Jung. Finally, Garb examines the kabbalists' relations with the wider Jewish community, uncovering the role of kabbalistic shamanism in the renewal of Jewish tradition as it contended with modernity.

Cabala. --- Shamanism. --- jewish thought, judaism, religion, religious studies, faith, mysticism, history, historical, social sciences, comparative religions, kabbalists, psychological, psychology, consciousness, study, ritual, mental methods, trance states, heavenly mountains, cabala, shamanism, transformation, milton erickson, carl jung, modernity, empowerment, shamanic hasidism, hasidic trances.

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Religion is alive and well in the modern world, and the social-scientific study of religion is undergoing a renaissance. For much of this century, respected social theorists predicted the death of religion as inevitable consequence of science, education, and modern economics. But they were wrong. Stark and Bainbridge set out to explain the survival of religion. Using information derived from numerous surveys, censuses, historical case studies, and ethnographic field expeditions, they chart the full sweep of contemporary religion from the traditional denominations to the most fervent cults. This wealth of information is located within a coherent theoretical framework that examines religion as a social response to human needs, both the general needs shared by all and the desires specific to those who are denied the economic rewards or prestige enjoyed by the privileged. By explaining the forms taken by religions today, Stark and Bainbridge allow us to understand its persistence in a secular age and its prospects for the future,.

Religion. --- case studies. --- census information. --- church revival. --- comparative religions. --- contemporary religion. --- cults. --- ethnographers. --- ethnography. --- historical. --- modern economics. --- modern religion. --- nonfiction account. --- religious denominations. --- religious historians. --- religious philosophy. --- religious reawakening. --- science of religion. --- secular age. --- secularization. --- social history. --- social needs. --- social studies. --- social theorists. --- surveys. --- survival of religion. --- theoretical framework.