Religion and human enhancement : death, values, and morality /: death, values, and morality. ([2017])
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- Book
- Title:
- Religion and human enhancement : death, values, and morality /: death, values, and morality. ([2017])
- Main Title:
- Religion and human enhancement : death, values, and morality
- Further Information:
- Note: Tracy J. Trothen, Calvin Mercer, editors.
- Editors:
- Trothen, Tracy J
Mercer, Calvin - Contents:
- 1. Coming into Focus: An Introduction to the CollectionSection 1: 'Common Ground' between Transhumanism and Religions2. In Extropy We Trust: A Systems Theory Approach to Identifying Transhumanism's Religious Philosophy3. Christian Transhumanism4. Mormonism Mandates Transhumanism5. Technological Apocalypse: Transhumanism as an End-Time Religious Movement6. A Theological Assessment of Whole Brain Emulation: On the Path to SuperintelligenceSection 2: Desires and Values7. Is Transhumanism a Distraction? On the Good of Being Boring8. What Exactly Are We Trying to Accomplish? The Role of Desire and Aversion in Transhuman Visions9. Genesis 2.0: Transhumanism, Catholicism, and the Future of Creation10. 'Have You Believed Because You Have Seen?' Transhumanist Qualms about Enhancement of Religious Experience through Alterations to the Visual FieldSection 3: Moral Bioenhancement 11. The Myth of Moral Bioenhancement: An Evolutionary Anthropology and Theological Critique12. Ancient Aspirations Meet the Enlightenment13. Unfit for the Future? Sin, Salvation, and Moral Bioenhancement in Christian Perspective14. Enhancing Moral Goodness: Towards A Virtue Ethics of Moral Bioenhancement15. Moral Bioenhancement From the Margins: A Feminist Christian Reconsideration Section 4: Longing for Immortality: Meanings of Death16. Technologizing Transcendence: A Critique of Transhumanism17 Must We Die? Transhumanism, Religion and the Fear of Death18. Dining and Dunking the Dead: Post-Mortem Rituals in1. Coming into Focus: An Introduction to the CollectionSection 1: 'Common Ground' between Transhumanism and Religions2. In Extropy We Trust: A Systems Theory Approach to Identifying Transhumanism's Religious Philosophy3. Christian Transhumanism4. Mormonism Mandates Transhumanism5. Technological Apocalypse: Transhumanism as an End-Time Religious Movement6. A Theological Assessment of Whole Brain Emulation: On the Path to SuperintelligenceSection 2: Desires and Values7. Is Transhumanism a Distraction? On the Good of Being Boring8. What Exactly Are We Trying to Accomplish? The Role of Desire and Aversion in Transhuman Visions9. Genesis 2.0: Transhumanism, Catholicism, and the Future of Creation10. 'Have You Believed Because You Have Seen?' Transhumanist Qualms about Enhancement of Religious Experience through Alterations to the Visual FieldSection 3: Moral Bioenhancement 11. The Myth of Moral Bioenhancement: An Evolutionary Anthropology and Theological Critique12. Ancient Aspirations Meet the Enlightenment13. Unfit for the Future? Sin, Salvation, and Moral Bioenhancement in Christian Perspective14. Enhancing Moral Goodness: Towards A Virtue Ethics of Moral Bioenhancement15. Moral Bioenhancement From the Margins: A Feminist Christian Reconsideration Section 4: Longing for Immortality: Meanings of Death16. Technologizing Transcendence: A Critique of Transhumanism17 Must We Die? Transhumanism, Religion and the Fear of Death18. Dining and Dunking the Dead: Post-Mortem Rituals in First-Century HellenisticSociety and What They Reveal about the Role of the Body in Christianity 19.. Making Us Better: Believe It or Not?. … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- New York, NY : Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- Publication Date:
- 2017
- Copyright Date:
- 2017
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (377 pages)
- Subjects:
- 200
Religion
Humanism, Religious
Technology -- Religious aspects
Humanism, Religious
Technology -- Religious aspects
Science -- Life Sciences -- Zoology -- General
Philosophy -- Reference
Genetics (non-medical)
Philosophy
Religion and sociology
Transgenic organisms
Philosophy
Social Science -- Sociology of Religion
Religious issues & debates
Electronic books - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9783319624877
3319624873
9783319624884
3319624881 - Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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