Mercer, Calvin
Religion and Human Enhancement
Part I. Introduction
1. Coming into Focus: An Introduction to the Collection
Calvin Mercer
Part II. “Common Ground” between Transhumanism and Religions
2. In Extropy We Trust: A Systems Theory Approach to Identifying Transhumanism’s Religious Philosophy
Matthew Zaro Fisher
3. Christian Transhumanism
Ron Cole-Turner
4. Mormonism Mandates Transhumanism
Lincoln Cannon
5. Technological Apocalypse: Transhumanism as an End-Time Religious Movement
Sean O’Callaghan
6. A Theological Assessment of Whole Brain Emulation: On the Path to Superintelligence
Calvin Mercer
Part III. Desires and Values
7. Is Transhumanism a Distraction? On the Good of Being Boring
Brent Waters
8. What Exactly Are We Trying to Accomplish? The Role of Desire in Transhumanist Visions
Amanda Sebastienne Grant
9. Genesis 2.0: Transhumanism, Catholicism, and the Future of Creation
Cory Andrew Labrecque
10. “Have You Believed Because You Have Seen?”: Human and Transhuman Desires for Alterations to the Visual Field and Religious Experience
Alan Murphy
Part IV. Moral Bioenhancement
11. The Myth of Moral Bio-Enhancement: An Evolutionary Anthropology and Theological Critique
Celia Deane-Drummond
12. Ancient Aspirations Meet the Enlightenment
James J. Hughes
13. A Transhumanist Moral Bioenhancement Program: A Critique from Barth and Bonhoeffer
Todd T. W. Daly
14. Enhancing Moral Goodness: Toward a Virtue Ethics of Moral Bioenhancement
James E. Helmer
15. Moral Bioenhancement from the Margins: An Intersectional Christian Theological Reconsideration
Tracy J. Trothen
Part V. Longing for Immortality: Meanings of Death
16. Technologizing Transcendence: A Critique of Transhumanism
Hava Tirosh-Samuelson
17. Must We Die? Transhumanism, Religion, and the Fear of Death
Noreen Herzfeld
18. Dining and Dunking the Dead: Postmortem Rituals in First-Century Hellenistic Society and What They Reveal About the Role of the Body in Christianity
Lee A. Johnson
Part VI. Conclusion
19. Making Us Better: Believe It or Not?
Tracy J. Trothen
Avainsanat: Religious Studies, Religion and Society, Transgenics, Philosophy of Technology
- Toimittaja
- Mercer, Calvin
- Trothen, Tracy J.
- Julkaisija
- Springer
- Julkaisuvuosi
- 2017
- Kieli
- en
- Painos
- 1
- Sarja
- Palgrave Studies in the Future of Humanity and its Successors
- Sivumäärä
- 17 sivua
- Kategoria
- Uskonnot
- Tiedostomuoto
- E-kirja
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9783319624884
- Painetun ISBN
- 978-3-319-62487-7