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About Religion: Economies of Faith in Virtual Culture
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About Religion: Economies of Faith in Virtual Culture Hardcover - 1999 - 1st Edition

by Mark C. Taylor


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Religion, Mark C. Taylor maintains, is most interesting where it is least obvious. From global financial networks to the casinos of Las Vegas, from images flickering on computer terminals to steel sculpture, material culture bears unexpected traces of the divine. In a world where the economies of faith are obscure, yet pervasive, Taylor shows that approaching religion directly is less instructive than thinking about it. Traveling from high culture to pop culture and back again, About Religion approaches cyberspace and Las Vegas through Hegel and Kant and reads Melville's The Confidence-Man through the film Wall Street. As astonishing juxtapositions and associations proliferate, formerly uncharted territories of virtual culture disclose theological vestiges, showing that faith in contemporary culture is as unavoidable as it is elusive. The most accessible presentation of Taylor's revolutionary ideas to date, About Religion gives us a dazzling and disturbing vision of life at the end of the old and beginning of the new millennium.

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  • Title About Religion: Economies of Faith in Virtual Culture
  • Author Mark C. Taylor
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
  • Date 1999-07
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780226791616 / 0226791610
  • Weight 1.27 lbs (0.58 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.24 x 6.28 x 0.85 in (23.47 x 15.95 x 2.16 cm)
  • Themes
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
  • Library of Congress subjects Religion - Philosophy, Religion and culture - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 98-40817
  • Dewey Decimal Code 291.175

About the author

Mark C. Taylor is professor of religion and chair of the Department of Religion at Columbia University. His most recent book is After God, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
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