Digital Humanities and Material Religion: An Introduction (Introductions to Digital Humanities – Religion) - Softcover

Clark; Emily Suzanne; Mc Bride Lindsey; Rachel

 
9783110604658: Digital Humanities and Material Religion: An Introduction (Introductions to Digital Humanities – Religion)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 3110604655 ISBN 13: 9783110604658
Publisher: De Gruyter, 2022

Synopsis

Building from a range of essays representing multiple fields of expertise and traversing multiple religious traditions, this important text provides analytic rigor to a question now pressing the academic study of religion: what is the relationship between the material and the digital?
Its chapters address a range of processes of mediation between the digital and the material from a variety of perspectives and sub-disciplines within the field of religion in order to theorize the implications of these two turns in scholarship, offer case studies in methodology, and reflect on various tools and processes. Authors attend to religious practices and the internet, digital archives of religion, decolonization, embodiment, digitization of religious artefacts and objects, and the ways in which varied relationships between the digital and the material shape religious life.
Collectively, the volume demonstrates opportunities and challenges at the intersection of digital humanities and material religion. Rather than defining the bounds of a new field of inquiry, the essays make a compelling case, collectively and on their own, for the interpretive scrutiny required of the humanities in the digital age.

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About the Authors

Emily Suzanne Clark, Gonzaga University, Spokane and Rachel McBride Lindsey, Saint Louis University, USA.

Emily Suzanne Clark, Gonzaga University, Spokane und Rachel McBride Lindsey, Saint Louis University, USA.

From the Back Cover

Building from a range of essays representing multiple fields of expertise and traversing multiple religious traditions, this important text provides analytic rigor to a question now pressing the academic study of religion: what is the relationship between the material and the digital?
Its chapters address a range of processes of mediation between the digital and the material from a variety of perspectives and sub-disciplines within the field of religion in order to theorize the implications of these two turns in scholarship, offer case studies in methodology, and reflect on various tools and processes. Authors attend to religious practices and the internet, digital archives of religion, decolonization, embodiment, digitization of religious artefacts and objects, and the ways in which varied relationships between the digital and the material shape religious life.
Collectively, the volume demonstrates opportunities and challenges at the intersection of digital humanities and material religion. Rather than defining the bounds of a new field of inquiry, the essays make a compelling case, collectively and on their own, for the interpretive scrutiny required of the humanities in the digital age.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

Publisher
De Gruyter
Publication date
2022
Language
English
ISBN 10 
3110604655
ISBN 13 
9783110604658
Binding
Perfect Paperback
Number of pages
240