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The late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries have seen an acceleration in the historical process whereby technology, once viewed as instrumental in religion (as it was in business, art, and other areas), appears to have become the fulfillment of religious aspirations. That is, technology once served as a signpost for, or necessary precondition of, religious salvation, but in the Western world, technological progress and religious salvation have now converged – they have become one and the same thing.
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Geraci, R. (2014). Technology and Religion. In: Bainbridge, W., Roco, M. (eds) Handbook of Science and Technology Convergence. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04033-2_78-1
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