Enchantment - Disenchantment-Re-Enchantment: Postdigital Relationships between Science, Philosophy, and Religion.
John Reader, Petar Jandrić, Michael A Peters, Ronald Barnett, Marcin Garbowski, Veronika Lipińska, Sharon Rider, Ibrar Bhatt, Abdassamad Clarke, Morteza Hashemi, Andrew Bevan, Eric Trozzo, Alison Mackenzie, Jared J Aldern, Cheryl E Matias, Georgina Tuari Stewart, Carl Mika, Peter Mclaren, Tim Fawns, Jeremy Knox, Maggi Savin-baden, Liz Jackson, Nina Hood, Marek Tesar, Steve Fuller, Chris Baker
Postdigital science and education January 1, 2021 Peer reviewed DOI: 10.1007/s42438-020-00133-4 via PubMed
Summary
This collectively written article examines the postdigital relationships between science, philosophy, and religion along a continuum of enchantment, disenchantment, and re-enchantment. Contributions from philosophy, theology, critical theory, and postdigital studies reveal complex and nuanced relationships across disciplinary perspectives, religions, and political positions, highlighting many commonalities. The article raises questions about where the mythical and spiritual end and the rational and empirical begin, and where to find trustworthy resources. It concludes that an open postdigital dialogue conducted with mutual understanding and respect offers a route for future development.
Study at a glance
| Design | theoretical or philosophical paper |
|---|---|
| Key finding | A common thread among all contributions is the need for an open postdigital dialogue conducted in the spirit of mutual understanding and respect. |
Abstract
This collectively written article explores postdigital relationships between science, philosophy, and religion within the continuum of enchantment, disenchantment, and re-enchantment. Contributions are broadly classified within four sections related to academic fields of philosophy, theology, critical theory, and postdigital studies. The article reveals complex and nuanced relationships between various disciplinary perspectives, religions, and political positions, and points towards lot of commonalities between their views to the enchantment, disenchantment, re-enchantment continuum. Some commonly discussed questions include: Where do the mythical, mystical and spiritual end and the rational, objective and empirical begin? How do we find our bearings in the midst of this complexity and where do we search for resources that are trustworthy and reliable? While the article inevitably offers more questions than answers, a common thread between all contributions is the need for an open postdigital dialogue conducted in the spirit of mutual understanding and respect. It is with this conclusion that the article offers a possible route for further development of such dialogue in the future.