Understanding Religion through Artificial Intelligence: Bonding and Belief

✍ Scribed by Justin E. Lane

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Business
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 257
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In Understanding Religion through Artificial Intelligence, Justin E. Lane looks at the reasons why humans feel they are part of a religious group, despite often being removed from other group members by vast distances or multiple generations. To achieve this, Lane offers a new perspective that integrates religious studies with psychology, anthropology, and data science, as well as with research at the forefront of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
After providing a critical analysis of approaches to religion and social cohesion, Lane proposes a new model for religious studies, which he calls the “Information Identity System.” This model focuses on the idea of conceptual ties: links between an individual’s self-concept and the ancient beliefs of their religious group. Lane explores this idea through real-world examples, ranging from the rise in global Pentecostalism, to religious extremism and self-radicalization, to the effect of 9/11 on sermons. Lane uses this lens to show how we can understand religion and culture today, and how we can better contextualize the changes we see in the social world around us

✦ Table of Contents

Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Illustrations
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Religions, Old and New
Chapter 3: Bonding and Belief
Chapter 4: Identity and Extremism
Chapter 5: Artificial Intelligence and Religions in Silico
Chapter 6: From AI in Silico, to AI in Situ: Creating AI Gurus, Bird’s Eye Views of Christianity, and Using MAAI to Study Social Stability
Chapter 7: Schisms and Sacred Values
Chapter 8: The Future of Religion
Notes
References
Index