Religious transhumanism and its critics. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Foreword by Aubrey deGrey ; edited by Arvin M. Gouw, Brian Patrick Green, Ted Peters.
• Editors: Gouw, Arvin M; Green, Brian Patrick; Peters, Ted, 1941-
• Contents: Part I: Techno-Utopia? Where Are Transhumanists Leading Us? Chapter 1: <span style="font-style:italic;">Homo Deus or Frankenstein's Monster? Religious Transhumanism and Its Critics <span style="font-style:italic;">Ted Peters Chapter 2: Are We Becoming God(s)? Transhumanism, Posthumanism, Antihumanism, and the Divine <span style="font-style:italic;">Francesca Ferrando Part II: What Are Religious Transhumanists and Their Critics Saying? Chapter 3: Mormon Transhumanism <span style="font-style:italic;">Lincoln Cannon Chapter 4: Pre-Original Buddhism and the Transhumanist Imperative <span style="font-style:italic;">Michael LaTorra Chapter 5: Unitarian Universalists as Critical Transhumanists <span style="font-style:italic;">James Hughes Chapter 6: Confucian Religious Sensibility and Transhumanist Anthropology <span style="font-style:italic;">Heup Young Kim Chapter 7: Why Christian Transhumanism? <span style="font-style:italic;">Micah Redding Chapter 8: Steps Toward a Theology of Christian Transhumanism <span style="font-style:italic;">Ron Cole-Turner Chapter 9: A Roman Catholic View: Technological Progress? Yes. Transhumanism? No. <span style="font-style:italic;">Brian Patrick Green Chapter 10: Technological Theosis? An Eastern Orthodox Critique of Religious Transhumanism <span style="font-style:italic;">Brandon Gallaher Chapter 11: The Transhumanist Pied Pipers: A Jewish Caution against False Messianism <span style="font-style:italic;">Hava Tirosh-Samuelson Part III: The H+ Future: What are the Issues? Chapter 12: Cyborg, Gender, and the Posthuman Self <span style="font-style:italic;">J. Jeanine Thweatt Chapter 13: A Virtual Ghost in the Digital Machine: Whole Brain Emulation, Disembodied Gender, and Queer Mystical Animality <span style="font-style:italic;">Jay Emerson Johnson Chapter 14: Copulation, Masturbation, and Sex Bots: Ethical Implication of AI as My Buddy in Bed <span style="font-style:italic;">Elisabeth Gerle Chapter 15: The Transhumanist Threat to Plants and Animals: An Exercise in Eco-Feminist Critical Theory <span style="font-style:italic;">Iris Ralph and Peter I-min Huang Chapter 16: Transhumanism, Theological Anthropology, and the Ethics of Ambiguity <span style="font-style:italic;">Whitney A. Bauman Chapter 17: The iCalf, Relationality, and the Extended Body: Evaluations of Different Notions of Post/Transhumanism <span style="font-style:italic;">Markus Mühling Part IV: Is H+ Sound Scientifically? Philosophically? Theologically? Chapter 18: Transhumanism: Good Science? Bad Science? Pseudo-Science <span style="font-style:italic;">Arvin Gouw Chapter 19: Ghosts or Zombies: On Keeping Body and Soul Together <span style="font-style:italic;">Noreen Herzfeld Chapter 20: In Praise of Boundaries: Understanding Mortality as an Ally <span style="font-style:italic;">Nelson R. Kellogg Chapter 21: Homo Gubernator as a Teilhardian-Catholic Response to Transhumanism <span style="font-style:italic;">Levi Checketts Chapter 22: Will Transhumanism Reach Point Omega? <span style="font-style:italic;">Ilia Delio Chapter 23: Resurrection, and the Transhumanist Promise <span style="font-style:italic;">Celia E. Deane-Drummond Chapter 24: Moral Enhancement, the Virtues, and Transhumanism: Moving Beyond Gene Editing <span style="font-style:italic;">Braden Molhoek Chapter 25: Epilogue: Introducing a New Transhumanist Theology <span style="font-style:italic;">Arvin Gouw
• Publisher Details: Lanham : Lexington Books
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 202.2; Transhumanism -- Religious aspects
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781498584142
• Related ISBNs: 9781498584135
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