Welcome you to our conversations on religion, technology, and human presence, hosted in conjunction with Public Theologies of Technology and Presence, which is a research and journalism initiative based at the Institute of Buddhist studies in Berkeley and funded by the Henry Luce foundation.

The program is led by director Steven Barrie-Anthony. Over recent decades, technologies have radically reshaped human relationships in ways that evoke deep questions such as what it means to be human and to be present with others. The Public Theologies of Technology and Presence initiative gathers and funds leading scholars of religion and theologians from universities across the US, and journalists, for projects and collaborations addressing the impacts of technologies on human relationships.

The project gathers these scholars of religion from universities across the USA and it includes a central focus on pedagogy.

One of the goals is to develop powerful and effective ways of teaching these themes within religion and theology curriculum. Many grantees are teaching courses in this vein. And so this podcast provides a window into the work they're doing in the classroom and beyond. We hope that it provides a significant resource for university and theology teachers who are approaching the themes of human presence, relationship and technology. What you will find here are conversations with about a dozen scholars, practitioners, and professors who share their insights from teaching wide, arrange of traditions and themes related to human presence and technology.