Future of religion — Digital utopias and spiritual imagination

The year is 2087 and Istanbul is a glittering, technological metropolis — but is this digital utopia more, or less, religious than today? Religious affiliation and the category of “religion” itself is changing along with technology, politics and the environment. So in the middle of all this upheaval, what future do religious people imagine for themselves?

Dr Anna Halafoff is Associate Professor in Sociology at Deakin University and president of the Australian Association for the Study of Religion. She is the author of Freedoms faiths and futures: Teenage Australians on religion, sexuality and diversity.

Peter Gould is founder of Gould Studio and Creative Director of Tales of Khayaal, a webcomic set in an alternative future shaped by technology and spiritual imagination.