Religion and human enhancement : death, values, and morality / Tracy J. Trothen, Calvin Mercer, editors.

• Coming into focus: an introduction to the collection / Calvin Mercer -- In extrophy we trust: a systems theory approach to identifying transhumanism's religious philosophy / Matthew Zaro Fisher -- Christian transhumanism / Ron Cole-Turner -- Mormonism mandates transhumanism / Lincoln Cannon -- Technological apocalypse: transhumanism as an end-time religious movement / Sean O'Callaghan -- A theological assessment of whole brain emulation: on the path to superintelligence / Calvin Mercer -- Is transhumanism a distraction?: on the good of being boring / Brent Waters -- What exactly are we trying to accomplish?: the role of desire in transhumanist visions / Amanda Sebastienne Grant -- Genesis 2.0: transhumanism, Catholicism, and the future of creation / Cory Andrew Labrecque -- "Have you believed because you have seen?": human and transhuman desires for alterations to the visual field and religious experience / Alan Murphy -- The myth of moral bio-enhancement: an evolutionary anthropology and theological critique / Celia Deane-Drummond -- Ancient aspirations meet the Englightenment / James J. Hughes -- A transhumanist moral bioenhancement program: a critique from Barth and Bonhoeffer / Todd T.W. Daly -- Enhancing moral goodness: toward a virtue ethics of moral bioenhancement / James E. Helmer -- Moral bioenhancement from the margins: an intersectional Christian theological reconsideration / Tracy J. Trothen -- Technololgizing transcendence: a critique of transhumanism / Hava Tirosh-Samuelson -- Must we die?: transhumanism, religion, and the fear of death / Noreen Herzfeld -- Dining and dunking the dead: postmortem rituals in first-century Hellenic society and what they reveal about the role of the body in Christianity / Lee A. Johnson -- Making us better: believe it or not? / Tracy J. Trothen.

• "This collection vigorously addresses the religious implications of extreme human enhancement technology. Topics covered include cutting edge themes, such as moral enhancement, common ground to both transhumanism and religion, the meaning of death, desire and transcendence, and virtue ethics"--Back cover. 

Ämnesord

Religion och vetenskap  (sao)

Människokroppen  -- religiösa aspekter (sao)

Theological anthropology.  (LCSH)

Religion and science.  (LCSH)

Human body  -- Religious aspects. (LCSH)

Humanism  -- Religious aspects. (LCSH)

Human Body.  (MeSH)

Religion and Science.  (MeSH)

Humanism.  (MeSH)

Biomedical Enhancement  -- ethics. (MeSH)

Religion and science.  (fast)

Theological anthropology.  (fast)

Human body  -- Religious aspects. (fast)

Humanism  -- religiösa aspekter (sao)

Religion and science  (LCSH)

Klassifikation

BL604.B64 (LCC)

2018 E-113 (NLM)

BL 604.B64 (NLM)

202.2 (DDC)

Cm.02 (kssb/8 (machine generated))