1. Introduction
2. Rejection
3. Adoption
4. Adaptation
5. AI, Religion, and Transhumanism
6. AI New Religious Movements
7. Religion, Creation, and Posthumanism
8. Entanglements, Imaginaries, and Futures
Index
Biography
Beth Singler is the Assistant Professor in Digital Religion(s) at the University of Zurich (UZH), Switzerland; co-lead of the Media Existential Encounters and Evolving Technology Lab at UZH; an Associate Professor at the Digital Society Initiative at UZH; a Fellow of the International Society for Science and Religion; and a member of the Human Augmentation Research Network.
"There is currently both great excitement and widespread social concern about AI, including its implications for religion. In this dispassionate and informative book, Singler approaches the relationship between the two as a social scientist, and examines their complex “entanglements”, including rejection, adoption, and adaptation. She has provided a much-needed educational resource on one of the most pressing current topics at the intersection of religion and science."
- The International Society for Science and Religion Awards, Winner, Books for Professionals and Educators Category
"Beth Singler has crafted a comprehensive yet highly readable survey of religion and AI that includes a wide range of religious traditions and thoughtful discussion cues to get the most reluctant student talking. As either a textbook or as an introduction to the entanglement of religion and AI for the curious reader, this book offers a wide variety of ‘case studies’ to raise questions and challenge our ideas about religion and technology that the reader will find compelling. Singler takes the time to explain and problematize certain terms early on and is rigorous in her scholarship yet manages a narrative-like quality that is very gratifying. This book is an important contribution to the rapidly growing discourse on artificial intelligence."
- Juli L. Gittinger, Georgia College & State University, USA
