Religion and Technology

Abstract

Technology in all its varied manifestations and religion throughout its many traditions and expressions exhibit a long and complex interrelationship from prehistoric times to the present. Continuously evolving formal systems of religious thought and more informal daily practices among the religions of the world present a wide array of issues, understandings, attitudes, and values toward technology as well as demonstrate the complex influences that varied technologies have exerted directly or indirectly on the religious impulse. Technology and design education needs to explicitly engage religious thought and praxis as it relates to the technology curriculum for the sake of learners and for the future of society.