Religion and human enhancement : death, values, and morality /: death, values, and morality. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• 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 in First-Century HellenisticSociety and What They Reveal about the Role of the Body in Christianity 19.. Making Us Better: Believe It or Not?.
• 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.; Note: Print version record.
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