About Religion: Economies of Faith in Virtual Culture

About Religion: Economies of Faith in Virtual Culture

by Mark C. Taylor
ISBN-10:
0226791629
ISBN-13:
9780226791623
Pub. Date:
07/01/1999
Publisher:
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10:
0226791629
ISBN-13:
9780226791623
Pub. Date:
07/01/1999
Publisher:
University of Chicago Press
About Religion: Economies of Faith in Virtual Culture

About Religion: Economies of Faith in Virtual Culture

by Mark C. Taylor

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Overview

"Religion," Mark C. Taylor maintains, "is most interesting where it is least obvious." From global financial networks to the casinos of Las Vegas, from images flickering on computer terminals to steel sculpture, material culture bears unexpected traces of the divine. In a world where the economies of faith are obscure, yet pervasive, Taylor shows that approaching religion directly is less instructive than thinking about it.

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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780226791623
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 07/01/1999
Series: Religion and Postmodernism
Edition description: 1
Pages: 304
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Mark C. Taylor is professor of religion at Columbia University and the Cluett Professor of Humanities emeritus at Williams College. He is the founding editor of the Religion and Postmodernism series published by the University of Chicago Press and is the author of over thirty books, including Speed Limits: Where Time Went and Why We Have So Little Left and Abiding Grace: Time, Modernity, Death.

Table of Contents

About About
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

What People are Saying About This

William R. LaFleur

'Life is becoming more informational and information is becoming more life-like,' writes Taylor in the course of this brilliant demonstration of the multiple ways in which virtual culture is about religion. His fascinating analyses of the big-name theorists of religion, associated so closely with modernity, show why they have all been failing ot satisfy of late. From casinos to Zen, Taylor pulls us strongly and with exquisite playfulness into our necessary post-modernity.

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