Memetics & the Imago Dei
Memetics treats culture as something that replicates, and the Imago Dei says people are made in the image of God. Digital society makes the tension between those claims easier to see.
Phil Linley
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Ideas Shape the World.
Sociology, memetics, theology, philosophy, and politics: connecting academic research, historical texts, and contemporary cultural debates.
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What Is Memetics?
Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene (1976)
A short introduction to memetics, the study of how ideas and cultural information spread, and the questions I want to chase.
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