Postdigital Ethical Futures

Maria Power is a Senior Research Fellow at the Las Casas Institute for Social Justice, Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford. Her work focuses mainly on peacebuilding within divided communities in Northern Ireland. Her most recent publications include Catholic Social Teaching and Theologies of Peace in Northern Ireland: Cardinal Cahal Daly and the Pursuit of the Peaceable Kingdom, (Routledge, 2021) and Violence and Peace in Sacred Texts, (Palgrave, 2023). She is currently writing a monograph exploring the role of the bible in the conflict in Northern Ireland which will be published by Routledge in 2025.Maggi Savin-Baden is a Professor and Senior Research Fellow, Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford. She has authored, coauthored and edited 27 books in the areas of innovative learning, digital fluency, digital afterlife pedagogical agents, qualitative research methods, problem-based learning and the metaverse. She currently co-editor of the Metaverse book series. In her spare time, she runs, bakes, climbs, does triathlons and wild swimming.

• ForewordAcknowledgementsIntroductionPart I - The nature of ethics1. The Landscape of Postdigital EthicsMaggi Savin-Baden2. A New Materialist Approach to Postdigital EthicsAdrian Evans and John Reader3. Searching For the Good Life: Boundary Crossing, Co-Existence, and ConvivialityMark Coeckelbergh and John Reader Part II - Practical theology and ethics4. Postdigital Cloud PrayerEric Trozzo5. The Postdigital Church: Implications of the Concept of Postdigitality for Current Research on the Digital Church? Sabrina Müller and Aline Knapp6. Reclaiming the Position and Role of Muslim Women in a (post)-digital WorldNuraan DavidsPart III - Theoretical debates7. The Spiritual Commons: Enclosures and ThresholdsJohn Reader8. On the Possibility of Artificial Sin: Sin, Sentience and SelfPaul Woods9. Biological and Artificial Neural Networks and Postdigital EthicsPeter Haslehurst and Andrew BevanPart IV - Endings10. Enfolding or Unfolding the Face: A Digital SpiritualityJohn ReaderPostscript - Reflections on the TextMaria Power