Embodiment in a Digital World
Ethics of the Body Electric
Embodiment in a Digital World
Ethics of the Body Electric
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How has digital technology shaped our understanding of embodiment, particularly in relation to race, sex, sexuality, and gender?
Digital technology has permeated every aspect of our lives, reshaping how we interact, communicate, and express our identities. This volume tackles the repercussions of this permeation from a theological perspective. It bridges Christian theological reflection, digital research, and ethical analysis, focusing on how digital technology effects the construction and expression of sexuality and gender.
Ott and Symmonds lead a range of scholars, with expertise in digital and sexual ethics, to engage social theory, feminist, womanist and queer theological approaches. Chapters adopt an intersectional approach using tools of social analysis to pay close attention to issues such as the impact of digital participation and world making on human relationships, racial bias, and identity performance.
Ultimately, this book critiques western Christian traditions that denigrate sexual and gender diversity limiting liberative exploration of the influence of digitality on embodiment and intimacy and how AI and robotics effect human morality. This includes a fascinating discussion of the ethics of digital pornography and sex work, engaging with political, cultural, and theological implications.
This work is an interdisciplinary effort to unpack the complex relationship between Christianity, technology, sexuality, gender, and social ethics.
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Table of Contents
Part I: Queering Relationships in Digital Spaces
1. Are Friends Electric? Relationships and Flourishing in Digital Contexts (Scott Midson, The University of Manchester, UK)
2. “Where Two or Three Are Gathered”: Digital Lives of Black and Indigenous Queer Millennials (Whitney Baisden-Bond, Chicago Theological Seminary, USA)
3. Digital Orality: African Spirituality and Embodiment (Katleho Mokoen, University of Pretoria in South Africa)
4. Culture, Faith, and the Digital Closet in Aotearoa New Zealand (Michael J Toy, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
5. Digital Black Queer Antagonism: Embodied responses to Burrell's-“Let God be True Quickly” (Shatavia L. Wynn, Rhodes College, USA)
Part II: Expanding Gender and Sexuality Domains through Technology
6. Blessing Together: Embodying Communication and Care of Religious Automation (Pauline Cheong, Arizona State University, USA)
7. Sex, Robots, and AI Pleasure Maps (Lex Dunbar & Philip Butler, Iliff School of Theology, USA)
8. Queering the Metaverse with Haraway's Cyborg: Imagining Ethical Futures (Anna Puzio, University of Twente, Netherlands)
9. Becoming Part of Each Other's Bodies: Smartphones, Social Media, and the Digital Embodiment of Gender (Max Thornton, Institute on Theology and Disability, USA)
Part III: Ethics of the Body Electric
10. AI, Deepfake Nonconsensual Pornography, and Women's Well-Being (Karen Peterson-Iyer, Santa Clara University, USA)
11. On Earth As it Is In Heaven: Toward an Eschatological Theology of Digital Embodiment (Nicole Symmonds, Columbia Theological Seminary, USA)
12. The Ethics of Online Gender Play: Embodiment, Masculinity, and Gaming (Kate Ott, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, USA)
13. Christian Eros and the Cyborg: From Economic Producers to Co-creators and Co-creatures
(Rachel Joyce, Marie O. Sanchez and Justin Badiod, Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines)
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Product details
| Published | 18 Feb 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 224 |
| ISBN | 9780567729774 |
| Imprint | T&T Clark |
| Series | T&T Clark Enquiries in Embodiment, Sexuality, and Social Ethics |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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