Religious Transhumanism and Its Critics

Religious Transhumanism and Its Critics

Cole-Turner, Ronald; Gouw, Arvin M.; Checketts, Levi; Green, Brian Patrick; deGrey, Aubrey; Bauman, Whitney A.; Deane-Drummond, Celia; Cannon, Lincoln; Delio, Ilia; Peters, Ted

Lexington Books

03/2022

494

Dura

Inglês

9781498584135

15 a 20 dias

830

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Part I: Techno-Utopia? Where Are Transhumanists Leading Us?

Chapter 1: Homo Deus or Frankenstein's Monster? Religious Transhumanism and Its Critics

Ted Peters

Chapter 2: Are We Becoming God(s)? Transhumanism, Posthumanism, Antihumanism, and the Divine

Francesca Ferrando

Part II: What Are Religious Transhumanists and Their Critics Saying?

Chapter 3: Mormon Transhumanism

Lincoln Cannon

Chapter 4: Pre-Original Buddhism and the Transhumanist Imperative

Michael LaTorra

Chapter 5: Unitarian Universalists as Critical Transhumanists

James Hughes

Chapter 6: Confucian Religious Sensibility and Transhumanist Anthropology

Heup Young Kim

Chapter 7: Why Christian Transhumanism?

Micah Redding

Chapter 8: Steps Toward a Theology of Christian Transhumanism

Ronald Cole-Turner

Chapter 9: A Roman Catholic View: Technological Progress? Yes. Transhumanism? No.

Brian Patrick Green

Chapter 10: Technological Theosis? An Eastern Orthodox Critique of Religious Transhumanism

Brandon Gallaher

Chapter 11: The Transhumanist Pied Pipers: A Jewish Caution against False Messianism

Hava Tirosch-Samuelson

Part III: The H+ Future: What are the Issues?

Chapter 12: Cyborg, Gender, and the Posthuman Self

J. Jeanine Thweatt

Chapter 13: A Virtual Ghost in the Digital Machine: Whole Brain Emulation, Disembodied Gender, and Queer Mystical Animality

Jay Emerson Johnson

Chapter 14: Copulation, Masturbation, and Sex Bots: Ethical Implication of AI as My Buddy in Bed

Elisabeth Gerle

Chapter 15: The Transhumanist Threat to Plants and Animals: An Exercise in Eco-Feminist Critical Theory

Iris Ralph and Peter I-min Huang

Chapter 16: Transhumanism, Theological Anthropology, and the Ethics of Ambiguity

Whitney A. Bauman

Chapter 17: The iCalf, Relationality, and the Extended Body: Evaluations of Different Notions of Post/Transhumanism

Markus Muehling

Part IV: Is H+ Sound Scientifically? Philosophically? Theologically?

Chapter 18: Transhumanism: Good Science? Bad Science? Pseudo-Science

Arvin Gouw

Chapter 19: Ghosts or Zombies: On Keeping Body and Soul Together

Noreen Herzfeld

Chapter 20: In Praise of Boundaries: Understanding Mortality as an Ally

Nelson R. Kellogg

Chapter 21: Homo Gubernator as a Teilhardian-Catholic Response to Transhumanism

Levi Checketts

Chapter 22: Will Transhumanism Reach Point Omega?

Ilia Delio

Chapter 23: Resurrection, and the Transhumanist Promise

Celia E. Deane-Drummond

Chapter 24: Moral Enhancement, the Virtues, and Transhumanism: Moving Beyond Gene Editing

Braden Molhoek

Chapter 25: Epilogue: Introducing a New Transhumanist Theology

Arvin Gouw
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artificial intelligence;human enhancement;life extension;posthuman;transhumanism;transhumanism and religion;transhumanism and theology