@article {251,
	title = {A Better Life Through Information Technology? The posthuman person in contemporary speculative science},
	journal = {Zygon},
	volume = {41},
	year = {2006},
	pages = {267-288},
	abstract = {The depiction of human identity in the pop-science futurology of engineer/inventor Ray Kurzweil, the speculative robotics of Carnegie Mellon roboticist Hans Moravec, and the physics of Tulane University mathematics professor Frank Tipler elevate technology, especially information technology, to a point of ultimate significance. For these three figures, information technology offers the potential means by which the problem of human and cosmic finitude can be rectified. Although Moravec{\textquoteright}s vision of intelligent robots, Kurzweil{\textquoteright}s hope for immanent human immorality, and Tipler{\textquoteright}s description of humanlike von Neumann machines colonizing the very material fabric of the universe all may appear to be nothing more than science fictional musings, they raise genuine questions as to the relationship between science, technology, and religion as regards issues of personal and cosmic eschatology. In an attempt to correct what I see as the cybernetic totalism inherent in these techno-theologies, I argue for a theology of technology that seeks to interpret technology hermeneutically and grounds human creativity in the broader context of divine creative activity. },
	url = {https://eric.exeter.ac.uk/repository/bitstream/handle/10036/48019/Zygon\%20Paper\%20-\%20a\%20better\%20life.pdf?sequence=1},
	author = {Michael Delashmutt}
}
@inbook {250,
	title = {Religionless in Seattle},
	booktitle = {Exploring Religion and the Sacred in a Media Age},
	year = {2009},
	pages = {85-104},
	publisher = {Ashgate},
	organization = {Ashgate},
	address = {London},
	abstract = {In recent years, there has been growing awareness across a range of academic disciplines of the value of exploring issues of religion and the sacred in relation to cultures of everyday life. Exploring Religion and the Sacred in a Media Age offers inter-disciplinary perspectives drawing from theology, religious studies, media studies, cultural studies, film studies, sociology and anthropology. Combining theoretical frameworks for the analysis of religion, media and popular culture, with focused international case studies of particular texts, practices, communities and audiences, the authors examine topics such as media rituals, marketing strategies, empirical investigations of audience testimony, and the influence of religion on music, reality television and the internet.Both academically rigorous and of interest to a wider readership, this book offers a wide range of fascinating explorations at the cutting edge of many contemporary debates in sociology, religion and media, including chapters on the way evangelical groups in America have made use of The Da Vinci Code and on the influences of religion on British club culture and electronic dance music.},
	keywords = {religion and internet, Seattle},
	url = {http://books.google.com/books?id=HRmYapWETqcC\&pg=PA85\&lpg=PA85\&dq=Religionless+in+Seattle\&source=bl\&ots=Q89-xXtfO2\&sig=JU8y6qjD29n9STEiL4viFgfAJZ8\&hl=en\&ei=FFbFTqeMLMn8ggf9l8nYDg\&sa=X\&oi=book_result\&ct=result\&resnum=3\&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAg$\#$v=onepage\&q=Religionl},
	author = {Michael Delashmutt}
}
