Theological Perspectives on a Surveillance Society

Watching and Being Watched
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-7546-6797-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 206 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 482 g

Reihe: Explorations in Practical, Pastoral and Empirical Theology

This book looks at contemporary surveillance practices and ideologies from a Christian theological perspective. Surveillance studies is an emerging, inter-disciplinary field that brings together scholars from sociology, criminology, political studies, computing and information studies, cultural studies and other disciplines. Although surveillance has been a feature of all societies since humans first co-operated to watch over one another whilst hunting and gathering it is the convergence of information technologies within both commerce and the state that has ushered in a 'surveillance society'. There has been little, if any, theological consideration of this important dimension of social organisation; this book fills the gap and offers a contribution to surveillance studies from a theological perspective, broadening the horizon against which surveillance might be interpreted and evaluated. This book is also an exercise in consciousness-raising with respect to the Christian community in order that they may critically engage with a surveillance society by drawing on biblical and theological resources. Being the first major theological treatment in the field it sets the agenda for more detailed considerations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stoddart, Eric

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents: Introduction; The 13th chime; Taking care; Careful technology; An unsafe peace; 'Unto Whom no privé thing is hid'; 'As if'; References; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Lecturer in Practical Theology at the University of St Andrews, UK since 2005. He has also taught at the University of Aberdeen, the Open University (as an associate lecturer on their first fully-online technology course), and developed and managed theological programmes at the former Scottish Churches Open College in Edinburgh between 2000 and 2003.