TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rivers, Theodore John
AU  - Rivers,Theodore John
TI  - The Future of Religion and the Religion of the Future
SN  - 9780761856542
U1  - D96 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Lanham
PB  - University Press of America, Inc.
N1  - includes index and biblioraphy; 1. Religion : An Attempt at a Definition .......1  Sociability .........3  Causality ..........3  Practicality ..........6  Rationality ..........8  Belief system...........12  2. Christianization of Technology .......21  The biblical Background .........21  Linearity of Time ........27  Monastics ......28  3. Secularization and its effects on Technology .....37  Historical Background .......39  Technology`s Fatalism ....43  Technology`s Mediocrity ..............49  Technology and Religion: A Metaphysical Challenge .....55  Religious Applications ...........57  How Religion was Perceived in the Past ...........60  How religion Might be perceived in the future ........67  5. Technological Theology ......74  The Nature of Technology .........78  Technological Theology ......80  6. The Future of Religion and the Religion of the Future ........86  Domination by Technology.......89  The potentiality of Technology as a Religion ................92
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