Asian Religions, Technology and Science

István Keul is Professor in the Study of Religions at the University of Bergen, Norway. His areas of research include various aspects of the history and sociology of South Asian religions. He is the author of a monograph on the Hindu deity Hanuman and has edited volumes on tantra, Yoginis and Banaras.

1. Introduction: Asian religions, technology and science Part 1 Asian religions and science 2. ‘True facts of the world.’ Media of scientific space and the transformations of cosmo-geography in 19th-century Buddhist-Christian encounters 3. An illusion of conciliation: religion and science in Debendranath and Rabindranath Tagore 4.Vedic science, modern science, and reason 5. Is the earth round? Traditional cosmography and modern science in Jainism 6. On ‘science’ in ‘the science of happiness’: the Japanese new religious movement Kofuku no kagaku, occult ‘science,’ and ‘spiritual technology’ 7. The synthesis of religious and medical healing rituals in the Song 8. Medical treatments described in the ritual texts of Kerala: interaction between religion and science Part 2 Asian religions and technology 9. New technology and change in the Hindu tradition: the Internet in historical perspective 10. Japanese new religions and the social networks: toward a 2.0 interactive religious discourse? 11. #Hashtag meditation, cyborg Buddhas, and enlightenment as an epic win: Buddhism, technology, and the new social media 12. The technology of tradition: Javed Ahmad Ghamidi and the contemporary Pakistani media’s participatory construction of women’s shari’a 13. New technologies and new funeral practices in contemporary Japan 14. Producing deities? Ritual as technology