Embodiment in a Digital World

Kate Ott is the Stead Professor of Christian Social Ethics and director of the Stead Center for Ethics and Values at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, USA.Nicole Symmonds is Assistant Professor of Christian Ethics at Columbia Theological Seminary, USA.

• Introduction Nicole S. Symmonds and Kate OttPart I Embodiment and Digital Space 1. Digital Orality: African Spirituality and Embodiment Katleho Mokoen (University of South Africa, South Africa)2. Culture, Faith, and the Digital Closet in Aotearoa New Zealand (Michael J. Toy, Moravian University, USA)3. Digital Black Queer Antagonism: Embodied responses to Burrell’s—“Let God be True Quickly” (Shatavia L. Wynn, Davidson College, USA)4. Becoming Part of Each Other’s Bodies: Smartphones, Social Media, and the Digital Embodiment of Gender (Max Thornton, Independent Scholar, USA)Part II: Expanding Gender and Sexuality Domains through Technology 5. Blessing Together: Collaborative Co-Intelligence for Embodied Communication and Care in Religious Automation (Pauline Hope Cheong, Arizona State University, USA)6. Sex, Robots, and AI Pleasure Maps (Alexis S. Dunbar, Iliff School of Theology & University of Denver, USA; Philip Butler, Iliff School of Theology, USA)7. The Ethics of Online Gender Play: Embodiment, Masculinity, and Gaming (Kate Ott, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, USA)8. Queering the Metaverse with Haraway’s Cyborg: Imagining Ethical Futures (Anna Puzio University of Bern, Switzerland & University of Vienna, Austria)PART III Ethics for the Body Electric9. AI, Deepfake Pornography, and Women’s Well-Being (Karen Peterson-Iyer, Santa Clara University, USA)10. On Earth as It is in Heaven: Toward an Eschatological Theology of Digital Embodiment (Nicole S. Symmonds, Columbia Theological Seminary, USA)11. Congruence in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI): Theological Reflections on Empathy and Embodiment in E-Therapy (Scott Midson, University of Manchester, UK)12. The Cyborg: Homo Oeconomicus to Homo Eroticus (Rachel Joyce Marie O. Sanchez, Columbia Theological Seminary, USA; Justin Joseph G. Badion, Manila University, Philippines)