Posthuman Priests: Exploring the 'New Visibility of Religion' in Robotic Re(-)presentations of Religious Rituals
In 2017, visitors to a church in Wittenberg were given the opportunity to receive blessings from a robot. The so-called ‘robot priest’, named ‘BlessU-2’, poses a lot of questions and possibilities. One of these is about the ways that robots might mediate and represent religious teachings, beliefs, a...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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MDPI
2022
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Religions
Year: 2022, Volume: 13, Issue: 10 |
| Further subjects: | B
religion and robots
B religion and media B meditisation B new visibility of religion B theology and technology B Secularisation B Reformation B theomorphism |
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