Religion and transhumanism : the unknown future of human enhancement /: the unknown future of human enhancement. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Calvin Mercer and Tracy J. Trothen.
• Editors: Mercer, Calvin R; Trothen, Tracy J (Tracy Joan), 1963-
• Contents: Introduction: Making the Unknown KnownCalvin MercerSection 1: Theological Anthropology: What It Means to Be Human1 Transhumanism and the Meaning of LifeAnders Sandberg2 More Human Than the Human? Toward a "Transhumanist" Christian Theological AnthropologyMatthew Zaro Fisher3 Cindi, Six, and Her: Gender, Relationality, and Friendly Artificial IntelligenceJeanine Thweatt-BatesSection 2: Soteriology: Salvation Now and Forever4 "The Relief of Man's Estate": Transhumanism, the Baconian Project, and the Theological Impetus for Material SalvationJoseph Wolyniak5 A Salvation Paradox for Transhumanism: Saving You versus Saving YouPatrick D. Hopkins6 Diagnosing Death in the Transhumanism and Christian TraditionsTodd T. W. Daly7 Cyborg, Sage, and Saint: Transhumanism as Seen from an East Asian Theological SettingHeup Young KimSection 3: Eschatology: For What Do We Hope?8 Becoming God by the Numbers: An Evolutionary Journey toward the DivinePhilip A. Douglas9 The Religion of Technology: Transhumanism and the Myth of ProgressMichael S. Burdett10 Extreme Longevity: Insights from the Three Chinese Spiritual TraditionsGeoffrey Redmond11 Utopianism and Eschatology: Judaism Engages TranshumanismHava Tirosh-Samuelson12 Rapture of the Geeks: Singularitarianism, Feminism, and the Yearning for TranscendenceAmy Michelle DeBaetsSection 4: Extreme Enhancement Ethics: Theological, Bioethical, and Philosophical Questions13 Transhumanism and Catholic Natural Law: Changing Human Nature and Changing Moral NormsBrian Patrick Green14 The Risks of Transhumanism: Religious Engagements with the Precautionary and Proactionary PrinciplesDaniel McFee15 Christian Theology and Transhumanism: The "Created Co-creator" and Bioethical PrinciplesStephen Garner16 Remaking Human Nature: Transhumanism, Theology, and Creatureliness in Bioethical ControversiesCelia Deane-Drummond17 Critical Transhumanism as a Religious Ethic of OthernessSteven A. Benko and Amelia HrubySection 5: Body Matters18 Return of the Corporeal Battle: How Second-Century Christology Struggles Inform the Transhumanism DebateLee A. Johnson19 Flesh Made Data: The Posthuman Project in Light of the IncarnationBrent Waters20 Morphological Freedom and the Rebellion against Human Bodiliness: Notes from the Roman Catholic TraditionCory Andrew Labrecque21 The Fleshless Future: A Phenomenological Perspective on Mind UploadingHannah ScheidtSection 6: Corporeal Diversity and Religious Experience22 Does Transhumanism Face an Uncanny Valley among the Religious?Donald M. Braxton23 The Trans-Athlete and the Religion of Sport: Implications of Transhumanism for Elite Sport's Spiritual DimensionTracy J. Trothen24 Spiritual EnhancementRon Cole-TurnerConclusion: Transhumanism and Religion: Glimpsing the Future of Human EnhancementTracy J. TrothenBibliographyIndexAbout the Editors and Contributors.
• Publisher Details: New York : Praeger
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (472 pages)
• Subjects: 202.2; Religion -- Philosophy; Humanism, Religious; Christianity and religious humanism; Theological anthropology; Technology -- Religious aspects; Religion -- General; Philosophy of religion
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9798216138006
• Related ISBNs: 9781440833250
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