Techno-demonology: Naming, Understanding and Redeeming the A/Human Agencies with Which We Share Our World
In this paper I argue that an important strand of ecotheology should be an articulated techno-demonology—an understanding of the ways that technologies increasingly confront us as indifferent or malign agencies. Drawing particularly on the New Testament language of spiritual agencies, I consider in...
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2006
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Journal for the study of religion, nature and culture
Year: 2006, Volume: 11.1, Pages: 57-75 |
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