Vanderburg .“The Structure of Technology and Its Relation to Society,”.Man-Environment Systems. March-May 1986;16 ((2&3)): 83-92
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The concept of technique is central to all of Jacques Ellul's work. See especially The Technological Society, trans. J. Wilkinson (New York: Knopf, 1964); and The Technological System, trans. J. Neugroschel (New York: Continuum, 1980). For an overview see W. H. Vanderburg, Perspectives on Our Age: Jacques Ellul Speaks on His Life and Work (Toronto: CBC Enterprises, 1986, 2nd printing)
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VanderburgW. H., Technique and Culture, Volume 2 (in progress)
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What follows is a summary of my detailed study of culture published as Technique and Culture, Vol 1: The Growth of Minds and Cultures. A Unified Theory of the Structure of Human Experience (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1985). It includes a detailed discussion of the sacred, myths and value systems in religious and secular religious cultures
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Albert Einstein: Philosopher-Scientist. Schilpp P. A., ed. Evanston: Library of Living Philosophers; 1949:
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Peterson A..“The Philosophy of Niels Bohr,”.Bull. of the Atomic Scientists. Sept. 1963);;19:8 188-14
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Giedion S.Mechanization Takes Command. NY: Oxford University Press; 1948:
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Vanderburg W. H..Technique and Culture. Vol 1:
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I am indebted to Darrell Fast for providing the model on which this adaptation of Psalm 121 is based. I am not implying that the God of Israel was a cultural creation. The Judaic tradition clearly distinguishes God who is holy in the sense that He is separate from Israel and its culture (“My ways are not your ways,” says God) and the false gods created to serve the religious needs of any culture. If one believes there is a transcendent God and if this God communicates with people, then faith is not the result of the well-known religious forces of any society in which case a distinction must be made between faith (resulting from the Revelation of a transcendent God) and religion (resulting from the processes described by the sociology of religion). See Perspectives on Our Age (Op. cit., Ch. 4)
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Lifton Robert J.The Broken Connection. New York: Simon and Schuster; 1979:
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Ibid
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See, for example, BennettW. Lance, “Myth, Ritual and Political Control,”Journal of Communication30, 166–179 (Autumn 1980); and Louis Rene Beres, “Embracing Omnicide: President Reagan and the Strategic Mythmakers,” The Hudson Review 36, 17–29 (Spring 1983)
