New on the shelf: Deus in Machina: Religion, Technology, and the Things in Between

Deus in Machina: Religion, Technology, and the Things in Between
Jeremy Stolow; Paperback: 368 pages, Fordham University Press (2012); ISBN-10: 0823249816

Review:

• (Re)locating religion in a technological age: Book by Concordia professor explores intersection of religion and technology, September 24, 2013 By: Cléa Desjardins -- Extract: 

  Deus in Machina brings respected scholars from around the world together to evaluate the philosophical, cosmological and ethical terms on which technology has been imagined as the opposite of religion.
  Their essays — on subjects ranging from the development of mechanical clocks in medieval Christian Europe and the healing power of prayer in premodern Buddhist Japan to Islamic debates about organ transplantation in contemporary Egypt — call attention to what can be created once this division has been done away with.

  Table of Contents:

  >>Introduction: Religion, Technology, and the Things in Between Jeremy Stolow
  >>Ticking Clock, Vibrating String: How Time Sense Oscillates Between Religion and Machine Wolfgang Ernst
  >>The Electric Touch Machine Miracle Scam: Body, Technology, and the (Dis)authentication of the Pentecostal Supernatural Marleen De Witte
  >>The Spiritual Nervous System: Reflections on a Magnetic Cord Designed for Spirit Communication
  >>An Empowered World: Buddhist Medicine and the Potency of Prayer in Japan Jason Ananda Josephson
  >>Does Submission to God's Will Preclude Biotechnological Intervention? Lessons from Muslim Dialysis Patients in Contemporary Egypt Sherine F. Hamdy
  >>The Canary in the Gemeinschaft? Disability, Film, and the Jewish Question Faye Ginsburg
  >>(Re)Locating Religion in a Technological Age
  >>Thinking about Melville, Religion, and Machines That Think John Lardas Modern
  >>Amazing Stories: How Science Fiction Sacralizes the Secular Peter Pels
  >> Virtual Vodou, Actual Practice: Transfiguring the Technological Alexandra Boutros
  >> TV St. Claire Maria José A. De Abreu
  

Film and Dialogue: "Cracking the Codes: The System of Racial Inequity"

Tuesday, September 24, 2013 Meetup

5:30 PM to 8:30 PM

Saint Joseph's University

5600 City Avenue, Philadelphia, PA (map)

Campion Student Center Presidents Lounge

Cracking the Codes: The System of Racial Inequity

Film Screening and Dialogue Event 

Much more :  http://crackingthecodes.org/

Religion: Guide to the latest information -- Statistics Canada

• Religion: Guide to the latest information
• Interreligious unions on the rise
• Religion Reference Guide, National Household Survey, 2011
• 2011 National Household Survey: Data tables | Religion
• 2011 National Household Survey: Tabulations - Census
• CIP 2011- Classification structure - 39. - Theology and religious

On the same shelf:

• Census of Canada: 1861. Origins and Religions
  Canada. Board Of Registration And Statistics
• The South Asian Religious Diaspora in Britain, Canada, and the United States (SUNY Series in Religious Studies)
  Harold G. Coward
• The Sikhs in Canada: Migration, Race, Class, and Gender
  Gurcharn S. Basran
• Canadian abortion statistics greatly underestimated.(CANADA): An article from: Catholic Insight
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• Religion & Canadian Society: Contexts, Identities & Strategies
  Lori G. Beaman
• Child poverty stats scandalous, says moderator.(Canadian news): An article from: Presbyterian Record
  Amy MacLachlan
• Patterns of ethnic identification and the 'Canadian' response.(Statistical Data Included): An article from: Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal
  Ravi Pendakur
• The many faces of war: as the nature of conflict changes, traditional definitions of warfare fall short.(Project Ploughshares, ecumenical agency under ... An article from: Ploughshares Monitor
  Ernie Regeh
• Religious Cultures of the World: A Statistical Reference (Cross-Cultural Statistical Encyclopedia of the World)
  Philip Parker
• Spiritual, but not Religious: Understanding Unchurched America
  Robert C. Fuller
• The World's Religions in Figures: An Introduction to International Religious Demography
  Todd M. Johnson
• The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism: and Other Writings (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
  Max Weber
• Handbook of Psychotherapy and Religious Diversity
  P. Scott Richards
• Douglas Todd: The forces for and against mixed marriage

PROCEDURE FOR OBTAINING RECOGNITION AS A NEW DENOMINATION IN ONTARIO

• A religious marriage is performed by an official of a recognized religion - religious leaders to apply as officiants for marriages in Ontario
• List of Religious leaders in Ontario: List of Religious Officials by Name (Text Version - Government of ... 
• BECOMING A RECOGNIZED RELIGIOUS DENOMINATION IN ONTARIO

By Suzanne E. White, B.A., LL.B., and Terrance S. Carter, B.A., LL.B.

Submitting the form to:

ONTARIO
Marriage Office
Ministry of Consumer and Business Services
Registration Division
Office of the Registrar General
P.O. Box 4600
189 Red River Road
Thunder Bay, Ontario P7B 6L8
Tel: (416) 325-8305
Fax: (807) 343-7284

Florida Pastor Accidentally Burns 2,000 Bibles in Protest of 9/11 Attacks

Fla. Pastor Accidentally Burns 2,000 Bibles in Protest of 9/11 Attacks -

Extract:   Newslo       MULBERRY, Fla. — A Florida pastor set fire to more than 2,000 Bibles that he believed to be Qurans before authorities could extinguish the flames and arrest him. According to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office, Rev. Terry Jones and his associate pastor, Marvin Sapp Jr., set out to burn 2,998 Qurans, one for every victim of the 9/11 attacks.

The two men were arrested Wednesday on felony charges as they drove a 1998 Chevrolet pickup truck “towing a large barbecue-style grill filled with Qurans soaked in kerosene.”Sheriff’s officials said that the trailer caught fire as the truck was being towed. After the fire department extinguished the flames, a closer examination revealed that the books, which were stacked inside highly flammable cardboard boxes, were actually Bibles.

“We don’t condone the burning of any religion’s holy book,” said Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd, “but we were absolutely sickened to discover that Pastor Jones reduced a couple thousand Christian Bibles to ashes.”While Jones was not available for comment, Frann Ingram, a spokeswoman for his Dove World Outreach Center, said that Jones ordered copies of the Muslim holy book wholesale from Amazon. “They were supposed to arrive on the 10th, but they were a day late. We were in a hurry, and we didn’t check inside the boxes.” continue reading Newslo

Aaron Alexis, 34 ... used to worship twice a week at a Buddhist Temple

Aaron Alexis, 34, is dead gunman in Navy Yard shooting, authorities say 

By Theresa Vargas, Steve Hendrix and Marc Fisher, September 16, 2013, The Washington Post

Extract: "Those who knew Alexis in recent years describe him as a “sweet and intelligent guy” (a regular customer at the Thai restaurant where he had been a waiter) and “a good boy” (his landlord), but also as “very aggressive,” someone who seemed as though he might one day kill himself (a lay worker at the Buddhist temple where Alexis worshiped)." continue reading The Washington Post

see also

• Navy Yard killer identified?

Holy Water Bacteria, 21 springs in Austria and 18 fonts in Vienna: Medical University of Vienna study

• Holy Water Bacteria: Samples With Up To 62 Million Per Milliliter Found In Austrian Study,  Huffington Post ‎- by Andres Jauregui
• Skip the Blessing? ABC's Sunday Warning: 'Holy Water May Be ...
  

  NewsBusters (blog)
• Holy Water May be Harmful to Your Health, Study Finds"Despite its purported cleansing properties, holy water could actually be more harmful than healing, according to a new Austrian study on "holy" springs. Researchers at the Institute of Hygiene and Applied Immunology at the Medical University of Vienna tested water from 21 springs in Austria and 18 fonts in Vienna and found samples contained up to 62 million bacteria per milliliter of water, none of it safe to drink." Continue reading By LIZ FIELDS | Good Morning America 

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• Holy Water in News

Interfaith Service Initiative to launch at MSU (Mississippi State University) for Disaster Preparedness

Extract: "STARKVILLE, Miss.–Mississippi State University’s Interfaith Service Initiative represents an opportunity for people, whatever their faith, to collaboratively improve Oktibbeha County citizens’ disaster preparedness.

The university’s Interfaith Involvement Fair and Social will begin at 5 p.m. on Thursday [Sept. 12] in the second-floor lobby of Colvard Student Union. Faith-based organizations, as well as campus groups, should visit http://tinyurl.com/kkq4nbw to reserve a free table.

At 6 p.m., the Interfaith Dialogue will begin in the nearby Bill R. Foster Ballroom. Faculty members to lead the dialogue and breakout sessions include Albert Bisson, instructor of philosophy and religion; Jonathan Edelmann, assistant professor of philosophy and religion; Seth Oppenheimer, professor and director of mathematics and statistics; and Rani Sullivan, associate professor of aerospace engineering." ... The list of items for the emergency preparedness kits, as well as other information about the Interfaith Service Initiative at MSU, is available at http://mvc.msstate.edu/interfaithchallenge. continue reading

See also:

• President's Interfaith Community Service Campus Challenge\:

During the 2013-14 school year, Mississippi State University’s Interfaith Service initiative will bring together people of different faith backgrounds to improve the disaster preparedness of citizens of Oktibbeha County.

• August 27, 2013 - Interfaith supply drive # 1. Volunteers will check-in at 306 Moseley Hall before getting their drop assignments. Email volunteer@saffairs.msstate.edu to assist.
• September 12, 2013 – “Serving a Neighbor in Need” interfaith dialogue kick-off event in the Colvard Student Union.
• September 16-21, 2013 - Emergency Preparedness Week Training and Events, visitwww.cert.msstate.edu to register and volunteer

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Seeing a Woman: Object, subject and much more

Seeing a Woman: A conversation between a father and son by Nate Pyle

Extract:
Someday I am going to have to have the conversation with my son. No, not the conversation all parents dread giving and all kids are mortified having. I enjoy making people uncomfortable so that conversation should be fun.

No, I’m talking about another conversation. The one that happens after I catch his eye doing what male eyes do well – following an object of lust. We will probably be out at the mall, because that’s what dads do with their sons, and I’ll catch the look. Maybe we’ll go to the beach and see it. Doesn’t matter where it is, there will come a time when I will see it. And then it will be time for this conversation. continue reading: From One Degree to Another

The monk who lives up a rock to get closer to God

A Georgian monk has lived up a 131ft pillar of rock for 20 years in a lonely quest to get closer to God.  By Matthew Day 06 Sep 2013,Telegraph -- Last of the Stylites Maxime Qavtaradze, who lives on top of the Katskhi Pillar, Georgia. continue reading Telegraph

Spending God's Money: Opportunities, Limits, Extravagance And Misuse

• Spending God's Money: Extravagance And Misuse In The Name Of Ministry-Fourth Revised Edition Mary Kinney Branson
•   God's Thrifty Extravagance Jonathan Kopke
• Business for the Glory of God; The BIble's Teaching on the Moral Goodness of Business wayne grudem
• Why Business Matters to God: (And What Still Needs to Be Fixed) Jeff Van Duzer
• Doing God's Business: Meaning and Motivation for the Marketplace R. Paul Stevens
• In God We Trust: A Legacy for Creating Wealth and Abundance Jon D. Bender 
• Anderson Cooper blasts Pat Robertson over AIDS ring theory
• Death, diamonds and greed. A charismatic US businessman pursues an irresistible opportunity during one of the worst humanitarian crises of modern times. Mission Congo: dir. Lara Zizic, David Turner  -- A comment, by Kevin Saldanha

  "Here is one worth seeing this month... "The film raises larger questions over the billions of dollars raised by American religious institutions that go untaxed and unregulated. Robertson's organization alone earns annual revenues in the hundreds of millions. If this story can bring about greater accountability, that would truly be a blessing"

• Faith in Development: Partnership between the World Bank and the Churches of Africa Deryke Belshaw
• Faith and loathing: 'thou shalt not pander' should be a campaign Commandment.(the high road): An article from: Campaigns & Elections Rabbi David Wolpe
• Religion Affects Mutual Fund Decisions, Study Shows ...
• Piety and Public Funding | Schäfer, Axel R.
• A Fund for 'Evangelical' Scholars - Religion Online
• Fantino Defends Funding Homophobic Evangelical Group, by Julian Wolfe
• Speaking up for the pulpit
• Rockefeller Brother Fund: We're Buying Off Evangelicals, Mayors ... 
• Historical Examination of the Funding of North American Evangelical 
• Is Billionaire Atheist George Soros Secretly Paying for Evangelicals ...  
• Ex-Lutheran synod employee admits to stealing more than $300000
• Evangelical Dominionists Want to Strip Courts' Funds  
• Obama Admin Will Not Oppose Christian-Run Scope Business Filing Lawsuit Over Birth Control Mandate
• Should religion trump Obamacare? Insurance Blog 
• Feds Offer Tax Breaks to Influential Atheist Who Fights Against Benefits for Clergy
• Judge Is Asked by Creditors of Archdiocese to Leave Case  
• Filipinos protest ‘pork barrel’
• In the name of the robe -- "A jet-setting, fugitive Buddhist monk is at the centre of a huge religious scandal in Thailand. Lindsay Murdoch investigates. " 
• Islam and Mammon (a.k.a. materialism, greed, ...), Resource list updated 
• God and religion replaced by possessions by 2041 says Irish biopsychologist
• Parishioners Find Removal of Memorial Stones an Added Indignity  
• Memorials Removed at Bankrupt Crystal Cathedral
• Open Atheists Already Collect Tax-Free Clergy Housing Allowances   
• Regulation of Church, Nonprofit Political Speech 'Untenable,' Report Finds
• Church discipline: How accountability has changed — and hasn’t — for today’s flock   
• Christian Commission Seeks Congressional Intervention in Keeping the IRS Out of the Pulpit
• Pope steps up financial controls at Vatican

MUSIC and SPIRITUALITY: Faith-based Resources

• Music and Spirituality Part 2: The Soulful Odyssey of Yusuf Islam

• Music and spirituality to rock Purana Quila - The Hindu

• The Spirituality of Music   John Bird
• The Spiritual Significance of Music   Justin St. Vincent
• The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music   Victor L. Wooten
• Healing Power of Ocean Waves & Tibetan Singing Bowls   Music for Deep Meditation
• Healing Mantras: Using Sound Affirmations for Personal Power, Creativity, and Healing   Thomas Ashley-Farrand
• The Magic of Hebrew Chant: Healing the Spirit, Transforming the Mind, Deepening Love (For People of All Faiths, All Backgrounds)   Rabbi Shefa Gold
• Quotations on Jewish Sacred Music   Jonathan L. Friedmann
• music and spirituality - Interfaith forums 
• Keep The Faith - Your Spiritual Journey Through Music David R. Sams & Renee Kenneth Sams
• MUSIC AND SOUND IN THE HEALING ARTS   John Beaulieu
• Bhajan Parampara - A tribute By Anup Jalota To His Father & Guru Purushottam Das Jalota (Indian Devotional / Prayer / Religious Music / Chants)   Purushottam Das Jalota
• A. Hughman: “My Spirituality As An Atheist” | Diary of a Walking Butterfly
• Spiritual Journeys: How Faith Has Influenced Twelve Music Icons 
• Luther's Theology of Music: Spiritual Beauty and Pleasure (Theologische Bibliotek Topelmann) Miikka E. Anttila
• Mantras for Abundance   Shri Anandi Ma
• Sacred Journey CD - Native American Flute Melodies for a Spiritual Experience
• Radical Healing: Integrating the World's Great Therapeutic Traditions to Create a New Transformative Medicine   Rudolph Ballentine
• The Genesis Meditations: A Shared Practice of Peace for Christians, Jews, and Muslims   Neil Douglas-Klotz
• Rumi: Hidden Music   Maryam Mafi
• The Unstruck Drum: Mystical Poetry of Kabir in a New Setting by Jabez L. Van Cleef (Voices of World Religions)   Jabez L. Van Cleef
• MUSIC AND SOUND IN THE HEALING ARTS   John Beaulieu
• Heart and Sound: Discover Your Soul Voice   Carole Lynne
• The Yoga of Sound: Tapping the Hidden Power of Music and Chant   Russill Paul
• Tibetan Sacred Temple Music   Eight Lamas From Drepung
• A Bard's Book of Pagan Songs: Stories and Music from the Celtic World - CD included   Hugin the Bard
• Water Crystal Healing: Music and Images to Restore Your Well-Being   Masaru Emoto
• Music Medicine: The Science and Spirit of Healing Yourself with Sound   Christine Stevens MSW MT-BC
• Native American Flute - Cherry - Spiritual Healing - Professional Model - Deep Key Low D spirit flutes
• Chants of Illumination: Sanskrit Mantras to the Light   Imre Vallyon
• One Song: A New Illuminated Rumi   Michael Green
• The Spirit of Sounds: The Unique Art of Ostad Elahi (1895-1974)   Jean During
• The Mysticism of Sound and Music (Shambhala Dragon Editions)   Hazrat Inayat Khan
• The Healing Power of Sound: Recovery from Life-Threatening Illness Using Sound, Voice, and Music   Mitchell L. Gaynor
• Sacred Hindu Chants (Devotional / Prayer / Spiritual / Religion)   Sanjeev Abhyankar
• Azaan – A Sublime Musical Experience  Islamic Voice