scholarly journals Towards a Theological Anthropology of the Digital Age

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Gemma Serrano ◽  
Alessandro De Cesaris
Keyword(s):  
Theological Anthropology ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Digital Culture ◽  
Christian Tradition ◽  
Inner Life ◽  
Technological Transformation ◽  
Do So ◽  
Human Finitude

Abstract The paper aims at providing some introductory insights in the project of a theological anthropology of the digital age. The objective is to show that theological anthropology can help us gain an original and valid perspective on the technological transformation we have been experiencing during the last few decades. In order to do so, it is not enough to underline the analogy between some sources of the Judeo-Christian tradition and some aspects of the so-called digital culture. Instead, the objective is to show that theology can offer some theoretical instruments able to offer a deeper insight in our condition. The paper starts from the notion of finitude, interpreted as a blessing and not as a “limit” of our nature. Through the distinction between Promethean and Epimethan approaches to technology, the text focuses on three core aspects of human finitude: corporeality, inner life and otherness.

Cultural Studies as Performative Research in a Digital Age

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 309-320
Author(s):  
Caroline Stockman ◽  
Fred Truyen
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Digital Culture ◽  
General Domain ◽  
Qualitative Approaches ◽  
Research Domain

This paper aims to explore the nature of digital culture research, and the fitting methodology. Although it is still felt to be a novelty, it is not so different from the more general domain of Cultural Studies. The aim of research for both domains is meaning, or the challenge to understand the dynamics of the encoding and decoding process. Both domains endorse a wide variety of subjects, although typically the concrete methodology of Cultural Studies still remains restricted to qualitative approaches. The question of quantitative data and their analysis is highlighted in digital culture, and we should consider both its opportunities and limitations for the research at hand. In our reflection, Cultural Studies research emerges as a performative enterprise, and this is one of its unique distinctions as a research domain.

Image in the Making

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Thomson-Jones
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technology ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Digital Art ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Video Installation ◽  
Art Form ◽  
Fundamental Distinction ◽  
Net Art ◽  
Do So

Human beings have always made images, and to do so they have developed and refined an enormous range of artistic tools and materials. With the development of digital technology, the ways of making images—whether they are still or moving, 2D or 3D—have evolved at an unprecedented rate. At every stage of image making, artists now face a choice between using analog and using digital tools. Yet a digital image need not look digital; and likewise, a handmade image or traditional photograph need not look analog. If we do not see the artist’s choice between the analog and the digital, what difference can this choice make for our appreciation of images in the digital age? Image in the Making answers this question by accounting for the fundamental distinction between the analog and the digital; by explicating the technological realization of this distinction in image-making practice; and by exploring the creative possibilities that are distinctive of the digital. The case is made for a new kind of appreciation in the digital age. In appreciating the images involved in every digital art form—from digital video installation to net art to digital cinema—there is a basic truth that we cannot ignore: the nature and technology of the digital expands both what an image can be as an image and what an image can be for us.

Revelation and The Political

2021 ◽  
pp. 551-567
Author(s):  
Matthew John Paul Tan
Keyword(s):  
Political Thought ◽  
The Political ◽  
Divine Revelation ◽  
Christian Tradition ◽  
Modus Operandi ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
The Third ◽  
Heaven And Earth ◽  
Mode A ◽  
Do So

This chapter will explore the varieties of political thought informed by divine revelation as understood in the Christian tradition. It will do so with reference to the metaphysical assumptions of what happens when transcendence meets history, and accordingly divide the inquiry into three archetypes. The first are the monists, for whom transcendence collapses into the temporal. The second are the dialecticians, for whom the uncrossable distinction between heaven and earth results in a struggle between the two. The third are the participationists, for whom the transcendent and the historical can harmoniously cohere through a ‘mediating third’ plane. For each mode, a brief sketch will be given of the writings of exemplary thinkers, and of the promises and pitfalls. In highlighting this variety, the aim of charting this map is to nuance the discussion currently taking place concerning the motivations and modus operandi of religiously informed political actors.

Youth Identity in the Digital Age

2021 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-82
Author(s):  
Vo Huong Nam
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Personal Identity ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Digital Culture ◽  
Youth Identity ◽  
Profound Influence ◽  
Critical Task ◽  
Networked Society ◽  
Adolescent Period

AbstractThe digital culture has a profound influence on the formation of personal identity among the youth of Gens Y and Z. The networked society has strongly affected the process of forming an “inner identity,” a critical task in the adolescent period. The design of digital social media and apps can enslave youth in the “hive” and take away the solitude and resources needed for them to cultivate their “inner identity.” Therefore, there is a need for institutions such as school, family, and church to reinvent better ways to accommodate youth and engage them with digital media with responsibility and discernment.

A New Perspective for School Management in the Digital Age

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Eren Kesim
Keyword(s):  
School Principals ◽  
Rapid Change ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
School Management ◽  
Transformation Process ◽  
First Century ◽  
Digital Culture ◽  
Educational Organizations ◽  
Restructuring Process ◽  
New Perspective

All nations throughout the world have been influenced by rapid developments and transformations in the twenty first century. Throughout this process of rapid change, in which newly developed technologies and globalization gained momentum, all social establishments are being restructured. The restructuring process may only be realized with the involvement of individuals raised and trained in accordance with the age we live in, thus the strategic importance of educational organizations has risen. For educational organizations to fulfill the expectations of the responsibilities assigned to them, they must be managed in accordance with the requirements of this era. School principals are laden with important responsibilities throughout this process. One of the foremost variables of the transformation process enabled by digital technologies in the digital age is the concept of digital culture. This concept must be analyzed regarding its repercussions in educational organizations. This study analyzes the digital culture which has emerged in the digital age regarding its repercussion in schools and school management from a conceptual perspective.

scholarly journals Living in a digital culture: The need for theological reflection

2015 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anita L. Cloete
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Theological Reflection ◽  
Digital Culture ◽  
Making Meaning ◽  
The Church ◽  
Proactive Role

Today our lives are filled with technology through which we communicate, work, play and even engage with for making meaning. This implies the pervasive presence of digital media as an integral part of our everyday life. Although studies on media are mostly done by sociology and communication students, living in a digital age has significant implications for theological reflections. Despite this being the case there is gap in terms of a religious response to technology. In response to this, the aim of this article is to stimulate theological reflections with regard to living in a digital culture. This is achieved by raising theological questions in the hope that theology could take a proactive role in these discussions. The implications of living in a digital culture are quite vast; therefore, the focus will be limited to how a community is formed and sustained, and the possible implications for the church as community.

Literary Translation and Digital Culture: The Transmedial Breakthrough of Poland’s The Witcher

2020 ◽  
pp. 205-226
Author(s):  
Paulina Drewniak
Keyword(s):  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Cultural Diplomacy ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Literary Translation ◽  
Digital Culture ◽  
Fan Fiction ◽  
High Literature ◽  
Digital Cultures

This chapter explores the international transmedial phenomenon, The Witcher, which began life as a 1986 Polish short story, ‘Wiedźmin’ (The Witcher) by Andrzej Sapowski, but has become a paradigm of the intercultural communication facilitated by the digital age, including not only translated fiction, but also fan fiction and fan translations, a videogame trilogy and a film. The chapter highlights the new opportunities that digital cultures offer translated literatures, regardless of national origin, and the challenges they present to existing translation studies theory, dominated by the circulation of high literature in book form. It also notes, however, how even internationally co-owned genre franchises, old considerations of national cultural diplomacy, narrative and identity remain.

scholarly journals The pixelated text: Reading the Bible within digital culture

Theology ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 121 (6) ◽  
pp. 403-412 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Digital Humanities ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Digital Culture ◽  
Reading Process ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Text Reading

This article looks at Bible engagement in a digital age, focusing both on multimedia engagement with the Bible through the ages and on the changes that new technologies bring to the reading process, and asking some questions about our use of different technologies for different tasks. The article opens up the new possibilities afforded to scholars through the digitization of manuscripts and libraries, but also looks at the limitations of digital Bibles in their current forms. What new areas of research do the digital humanities open up for us?

scholarly journals Women, Tattoos, and Religion an Exploration into Women’s Inner Life

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 517
Author(s):  
Gustavo Morello SJ ◽  
Mikayla Sanchez ◽  
Diego Moreno ◽  
Jack Engelmann ◽  
Alexis Evangel
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Cultural Practice ◽  
Body Art ◽  
Workplace Culture ◽  
Spiritual Experiences ◽  
Inner Life ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Catholic University ◽  
Tattooed Women ◽  
Do So

In this article, we study women’s tattoos from a lived religion perspective. We describe how women’s tattoos express their inner lives, the religious dynamics associated with tattooing, and how they negotiate them with others. The sample used came from surveys and interviews targeting tattooed women at a confessional college on the East Coast of the United States. Women appropriate a prevalent cultural practice like body art to express their religious and spiritual experiences and ideas. It can be a Catholic motto, a Hindu or Buddhist sign, or a reformulated goddess, but the point is that women use tattoos to express their inner lives. We found that women perceive workplace culture as a hostile space for them to express their inner lives through tattoos, while they are comfortable negotiating their tattoos with their religious traditions. And they do so in a Catholic university.

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