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Frida Mannerfelt is associate professor and researcher in practical theology at Lund University, Sweden. She is also an ordained minister in the Church of Sweden.Florian Höhne is Chair of Media Communication, Media Ethics, and Digital Theology at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. He is also a trained journalist and an ordained minister in the Lutheran Church of Bavaria.

What I find particularly convincing about this book is that it does not treat ‘the digital’ as a single, universal context. Its chapters show that digital theology is always situated: in particular histories and practices, within technological infrastructures, and amid unequal relations of power. The volume does not simply add further perspectives to the field. It asks digital theology to reconsider where it speaks from and whom it has not yet heard. I warmly recommend it.

• ForewordIntroduction (Florian Höhne, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nurembeg, Germany and Frida Mannerfelt, Lund University, Sweden)I. Digital Theology and (Inter-)Contextuality1. Addressing the digital elephant in the room: Just how global is the global Digital Theological community? (Stephen Garner, Laidlaw College, New Zealand)2. Digital Theology: A Privileged Theological Discourse? (Taimaya Ragui, The Shepherd's Academy of Oxford Centre for Religion and Public Life, UK)3. Relational Labour and Faith-based Digital Activism: theorising the interplay between online and offline (Steve Taylor, Adelaide College of Divinity, Australia)4. Widya - Generation Z, Digital Spirituality, and the Future of Digital Theology: Interview with Elizabeth Widya Herlina (Elizabeth Widya, Marturia Christian College, Indonesia) II. Digital Contextualities in interaction with other contexts5. Digital Theology as Hermeneutic: A Ricœurian Analysis (Agana-Nsiire Agana, University of Edinburgh, UK)6. A Third-space Digital Theological Hermeneutic: Encountering Christ and Community in the Spaces of Colossians (Daniel Washbrook, Spurgeon’s College, UK)7. Limits and Legibility: A Digital Theology Perspective on Christian Non-monogamy (Michael J. Toy, Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) 8. Topological Interferences of Digital Space (Rainer Gottschalg, University of Münster, Germany)III. Contextual theological reflection on the intertwined contexts9. Bitcoin and Liberation Theology (Elsa Marty, the Institute for Vaishnava Studies, USA)11. Digitality as Kapwa: A Filipino Digital Spirituality (John Paul Arceno, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, USA)12. 'The Cathedral isn't a Playground'. Critical Reflections on Augmented Realirt and Recontextualization. (Max Tretter, & Michael Hahn, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)13. Cyborgs vs the Metaverse: Binaries in the Techno Dystopian Body (Iona Curtius, University of Aberdeen, UK)Index