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This book illustrates the research being carried out on the more practical aspects of the subject of religion and the digital, drawing on a wider range of disciplines and was created in memory of John Reader whose idea the text was, who died suddenly in 2023.
List of contents
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I - The nature of ethics1. The Landscape of Postdigital Ethics
Maggi Savin-Baden2. A New Materialist Approach to Postdigital Ethics
Adrian Evans and John Reader3. Searching For the Good Life: Boundary Crossing, Co-Existence, and Conviviality
Mark Coeckelbergh and John Reader Part II - Practical theology and ethics4. Postdigital Cloud Prayer
Eric Trozzo5. The Postdigital Church: Implications of the Concept of Postdigitality for Current Research on the Digital Church?
Sabrina Müller and Aline Knapp6. Reclaiming the Position and Role of Muslim Women in a (post)-digital World
Nuraan DavidsPart III - Theoretical debates7. The Spiritual Commons: Enclosures and Thresholds
John Reader8. On the Possibility of Artificial Sin: Sin, Sentience and Self
Paul Woods9. Biological and Artificial Neural Networks and Postdigital Ethics
Peter Haslehurst and Andrew BevanPart IV - Endings10. Enfolding or Unfolding the Face: A Digital Spirituality
John ReaderPostscript - Reflections on the Text
Maria Power
About the author
Maria Power is a Senior Research Fellow at the Las Casas Institute for Social Justice, Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford. Her work focuses mainly on peacebuilding within divided communities in Northern Ireland. Her most recent publications include
Catholic Social Teaching and Theologies of Peace in Northern Ireland: Cardinal Cahal Daly and the Pursuit of the Peaceable Kingdom, (Routledge, 2021) and
Violence and Peace in Sacred Texts, (Palgrave, 2023). She is currently writing a monograph exploring the role of the bible in the conflict in Northern Ireland which will be published by Routledge in 2025.
is a Professor and Senior Research Fellow, Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford. She has authored, coauthored and edited 27 books in the areas of innovative learning, digital fluency, digital afterlife pedagogical agents, qualitative research methods, problem-based learning and the metaverse. She currently co-editor of the Metaverse book series. In her spare time, she runs, bakes, climbs, does triathlons and wild swimming.
