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Approaching religion through linguistics: methodological thoughts on a linguistic analysis of 'religion' in political communication
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2013)
The constructions of ‘religion’ in general language are seldom themselves in the focus of empirical research. Aiming to retrieve the inherent knowledge that lies within these constructions, this article suggests a term-based ...
Developing twenty-first century skills: insights from an intensive interdisciplinary workshop Mosaic of Life
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2013)
The Baltic Sea, one of the world’s largest semi-enclosed seas, which, with its very low salinity and quasi-isolation from the big oceans cannot decide whether it is a sea or a large lake. This geologically-unique environment ...
Editorial. Aboagora 2013: The Human Machine
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2013)
The editorial introduces the articles of the issue, all pertaining to the arts and sciences event, Aboagora, which gathered artists, academics and a wide range of interested listeners together to discuss the relationship ...
The disappearing human–machine divide
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2013)
In this article a look is taken at some of the different ways in which the human–machine divide is rapidly disappearing. In each case the technical basis is described and then some of the implications are also considered. ...
The theological turn of postmodernity: to be alive again
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2013)
This article discusses the role of religion in the philosophy of Jacques Derrida. The author considers a specifically Christian, affirmative character of deconstruction that is found through the biblical references of ...
Book review
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2013)
Mapping Religion and Spirituality in a Postsecular World edited by Giuseppe Giordan and Enzo Pace (2012) is reviewed by Melanie Eulitz
Post-secular sociology: modes, possibilities and challenges
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2013)
It is by now well known that the modern category of religion has evolved as part of a certain trajectory of Western history. Among its many aspects, this trajectory is about how religion became part of a definitive ...
Social media: implications for everyday life, politics and human agency
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2013)
With the current saturation of digital devices in contemporary society, the boundaries between humans and machines have become increasingly blurred. This digitalization of everyday life both obscures and reminds us of the ...
Tracking social rhythms of the heart: from dataism to art
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2013)
The authors conducted a curiosity-driven study to explore what a vast body of self-tracking data could reveal about the rhythms of everyday life. The authors instructed thirty-six research participants to engage in ...
Time, space, and the new media machine of the terrorphone
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2013)
In this short article, the author is concerned with how the contemporary form of the telephone, a new media machine which was of deep-rooted significance for Marshall McLuhan, promotes our obsession with forms of shared ...