How can professors and teachers create relevant and effective courses on the themes of religion technology and human presence? This set of interviews with a dozen scholars from across the academic disciplines and theologians provides a window into cutting-edge pedagogies surrounding the the themes of religion technology and human presence. The courses and pedagogical strategies that we discuss in this series emerge from a variety of settings—from liberal arts colleges to research universities. This limited series is designed to help educators scholars and journalists think about how to teach and communicate about these complex and entangled elements of contemporary society in ways that are compelling and meaningful. The interviews are a result of Public Theologies of Technology and Presence a research initiative based at the Institute for Buddhist Studies in Berkeley and funded by the Henry Luce Foundation.
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How can professors and teachers create relevant and effective courses on the themes of religion technology and human presence? This set of interviews with a dozen scholars from across the academic disciplines and theologians provides a window into cutting-edge pedagogies surrounding the the themes of religion technology and human presence. The courses and pedagogical strategies that we discuss in this series emerge from a variety of settings—from liberal arts colleges to research universities. This limited series is designed to help educators scholars and journalists think about how to teach and communicate about these complex and entangled elements of contemporary society in ways that are compelling and meaningful. The interviews are a result of Public Theologies of Technology and Presence a research initiative based at the Institute for Buddhist Studies in Berkeley and funded by the Henry Luce Foundation.
Episode 5: Chinese Religions, Moral Attention, and Technological Presence
Religion, Technology, and Human Presence
27 minutes
4 years ago
Episode 5: Chinese Religions, Moral Attention, and Technological Presence
Beverley McGuire is an Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. As a historian of religion specializing in Chinese Religions, McGuire examines the impact of digital technology on moral attention—the capacity to discern and attend to the morally salient features of a given situation. Although most scholars associate moral attention with Western philosophers, Chinese religious traditions describe various means of facilitating moral attention, including Confucian techniques of moral cultivation, Daoist practices of “fasting the mind,” and Buddhist meditation.
This project considers ways in which digital technologies can distract us from other people and disrupt our moral attention, and ways in which digital technologies might enhance our interpersonal relationships and develop our moral attention.
Religion, Technology, and Human Presence
How can professors and teachers create relevant and effective courses on the themes of religion technology and human presence? This set of interviews with a dozen scholars from across the academic disciplines and theologians provides a window into cutting-edge pedagogies surrounding the the themes of religion technology and human presence. The courses and pedagogical strategies that we discuss in this series emerge from a variety of settings—from liberal arts colleges to research universities. This limited series is designed to help educators scholars and journalists think about how to teach and communicate about these complex and entangled elements of contemporary society in ways that are compelling and meaningful. The interviews are a result of Public Theologies of Technology and Presence a research initiative based at the Institute for Buddhist Studies in Berkeley and funded by the Henry Luce Foundation.
