Stoneman, Timothy H. B. (Author)
History and Technology
Volume: 36
Issue: 2
Pages: 187-204
Edition Details: Special Issue: Religion and Technology
Language: English
For over a millennium, Catholic and Protestant traditions have deployed technologies to address the central paradox of the Christian faith: God’s absence after Easter. The following essay brings together scholarship on religious technics in the Christian Latin West during the medieval and early modern periods with a focus on the performance of presence. Medieval actors utilized an array of techniques, instruments, and contraptions to manifest the divine power present in holy matter. The movement of artifacts and people across medieval and early modern horizons mobilized and multiplied the effects of sacred proximity. The Society of Jesus’ emphasis on sensuality in worship and spectacle linked older forms of ritual piety with routinized religion. The shift from a predominantly Christian to modern culture in the West did not terminate organized religion’s close association with technology, but extended the experience of spiritual presence in the West through industrial and post-industrial, digital means.
...MoreArticle Jennifer Karns Alexander (2020) Introduction: the entanglement of technology and religion. History and Technology (pp. 165-186).
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