“Blessed by the Algorithm: Digital Religion and Artificial Intelligence”, Zurich Lecture, 8th October 2021

Church of England “Ask Alexa to Say Grace” video

Bibliography

Church of England 2019. “Church of England Alexa skill asked 75,000 questions in first year”, 27 May 2019 https://www.churchofengland.org/news-and-media/news-and-statements/church-england-alexa-skill-asked-75000-questions-first-year

CorpComms 2020. “ALEXA, SAY GRACE”, 25 March 2020 https://www.corpcommsmagazine.co.uk/2020/03/alexa-say-grace/

Cusack, Carole 2010. Invented Religions: Imagination, Fiction and Faith, Aldershot, UK: Ashgate

Doctorow, C. and Stross, C. The Rapture of the Nerds: A Tale of the Singularity, Posthumanity, and Awkward Social Situations, London, UK: Titan Books

Durkheim, E. (1915). The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life: A Study in Religious Sociology. Macmillan.

The Guardian 2018. “Alexa, when did the Church of England become so tech-savvy?”, 25th May 2018 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/25/pray-alexa-church-england-tech-amazon-assistant-anglican

Harvey, Graham 2017. “If Not all Stones Are Alive. . . : Radical Relationality in Animism Studies”, in Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, 11(4) pp. 481–497.

Hallowell, A. Irving. 1960. ‘Ojibwa Ontology, Behavior, and World View’, in Stanley
Diamond (ed.), Culture in History: Essays in Honor of Paul Radin (New York:
Columbia University Press) pp. 19-52.

Possamai, Adam. 2005 Religion and Popular Culture: A Hyper-Real Testament, Brussels, Belgium: Peter Lang

Singler 2020a “‘Blessed by the Algorithm’: Theistic Conceptions of Artificial Intelligence as Entanglements of AI and Religion’, in AI and Society, 35, 945–955 https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00146-020-00968-2

—- 2020b “The AI Creation Meme: A Case Study of the New Visibility of Religion in Artificial Intelligence Discourse”, for a special issue on ‘the New Visibility of Religion’ for Religions, 11 (5), 253; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel11050253

—- 2014. “SEE MOM IT IS REAL”, Journal of Religion in Europe, 7(2), 150-168. doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/18748929-00702005

Technology Review 2021. “Troll farms reached 140 million Americans a month on Facebook before 2020 election, internal report shows”, 16^th September 2021 https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/09/16/1035851/facebook-troll-farms-report-us-2020-election/

Weber, Max. 1964. The Theory of Social and Economic Organization, trans. Talcott Parsons, New York, The Free Press, 328.