(Dis)Connected
Description
This pioneering volume explores complex local, global and digital contexts from the perspectives of Digital Theology.
The use of and access to digital technology is highly contextual. It differs between regions, generations, classes, religious denominations, and gender. Which problems theologians claim to be important and which developments they ignore is contingent on their cultural, social, economic, religious, ecclesial, geographic, technological, and institutional contexts.
The scholars in this volume delve into these complexities. First, the book explores the contextuality of Digital Theology itself and how theology has been bound by a primarily Western context. It then goes on to examine how this interacts with other national, social and theological milieus. Finally, these trailblazing academics highlight how Digital Theology can transcend the arbitrary barriers and divisions between contexts.
This makes postcolonial studies, contextual and liberation theologies highly relevant for Digital Theology and technological contexts. Therefore, this book not only advances digital theology, but all its interdisciplinary connections too.
This is important reading for any student wishing to stay on the cutting edge of theological discourse.
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Persons
Florian Höhne is Chair of Media Communication, Media Ethics, and Digital Theology at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nurembeg, Germany. He is also a trained journalist and pastor.
Frida Mannerfelt is a senior lecturer in practical theology as well as a postdoc in Bible, Culture and politics at Lund University, Sweden.
Content
Foreword
Introduction (Florian Höhne, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nurembeg, Germany and Frida Mannerfelt, Lund University, Sweden)
I. Digital Theology and (Inter-)Contextuality
1. Addressing the digital elephant in the room: Just how global is the global Digital Theological community? (Stephen Garner, Laidlaw College, New Zealand)
2. Digital Theology: A Privileged Theological Discourse? (Taimaya Ragui, The Shepherd's Academy of Oxford Centre for Religion and Public Life, UK)
3. Relational Labour and Faith-based Digital Activism: theorising the interplay between online and offline (Steve Taylor, Adelaide College of Divinity, Australia)
4. Widya - Generation Z, Digital Spirituality, and the Future of Digital Theology: Interview with Elizabeth Widya Herlina (Elizabeth Widya, Marturia Christian College, Indonesia)
II. Digital Contextualities in interaction with other contexts
5. Digital Theology as Hermeneutic: A Ricourian Analysis (Agana-Nsiire Agana, University of Edinburgh, UK)
6. A Third-space Digital Theological Hermeneutic: Encountering Christ and Community in the Spaces of Colossians (Daniel Washbrook, Spurgeon's College, UK)
7. Limits and Legibility: A Digital Theology Perspective on Christian Non-monogamy (Michael J. Toy, Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
8. Topological Interferences of Digital Space (Rainer Gottschalg, University of Münster, Germany)
III. Contextual theological reflection on the intertwined contexts
9. Bitcoin and Liberation Theology (Elsa Marty, the Institute for Vaishnava Studies, USA)
11. Digitality as Kapwa: A Filipino Digital Spirituality (John Paul Arceno, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, USA)
12. 'The Cathedral isn't a Playground'. Critical Reflections on Augmented Realirt and Recontextualization. (Max Tretter, & Michael Hahn, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)
13. Cyborgs vs the Metaverse: Binaries in the Techno Dystopian Body (Iona Curtius, University of Aberdeen, UK)
Index