Religious Transhumanism and Its Critics

Arvin M. Gouw; Brian Patrick Green; Ted Peters

doi:10.5771/9781498584142

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Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4985-8413-5
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4985-8414-2
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 464
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. Series Editor Foreword No access
3. Foreword No access
4. Preface No access
1. Chapter 1: Homo Deus or Frankenstein’s Monster?: Religious Transhumanism and Its Critics No access
2. Chapter 2: Are We Becoming God(s)?: Transhumanism, Posthumanism, Antihumanism, and the Divine No access
1. Chapter 3: Mormon Transhumanism No access
2. Chapter 4: Pre-Original Buddhism and the Transhumanist Imperative No access
3. Chapter 5: Unitarian Universalists as Critical Transhumanists No access
4. Chapter 6: Perfecting Humanity in Confucianism and Transhumanism No access
5. Chapter 7: Why Christian Transhumanism? No access
6. Chapter 8: Steps toward a Theology of Christian Transhumanism No access
7. Chapter 9: A Roman Catholic View: Technological Progress? Yes. Transhumanism? No No access
8. Chapter 10: Technological Theosis?: An Eastern Orthodox Critique of Religious Transhumanism No access
9. Chapter 11: The Transhumanist Pied Pipers: A Jewish Caution against False Messianism No access
1. Chapter 12: Cyborg, Gender, and the Posthuman Self No access
2. Chapter 13: A Virtual Ghost in the Digital Machine: Whole Brain Emulation, Disembodied Gender, and Queer Mystical Animality No access
3. Chapter 14: Copulation, Masturbation, and Sex Bots: Ethical Implication of AI as My Buddy in Bed No access
4. Chapter 15: The Transhumanist Threat to Plants and Animals: An Exercise in Ecofeminist Critical Theory No access
5. Chapter 16: Transhumanism, Theological Anthropology, and the Ethics of Ambiguity No access
6. Chapter 17: The iCalf, Relationality, and the Extended Body: Evaluations of Different Notions of Post/Transhumanism No access
1. Chapter 18: Is Transhumanism Good Science, Bad Science, or Pseudoscience? No access
2. Chapter 19: Ghosts or Zombies: On Keeping Body and Soul Together No access
3. Chapter 20: In Praise of Boundaries: Understanding Mortality as an Ally No access
4. Chapter 21: Homo Gubernator as a Teilhardian-Catholic Response to Transhumanism No access
5. Chapter 22: Will Transhumanism Reach Point Omega? No access
6. Chapter 23: Resurrection and the Transhumanist Promise No access
7. Chapter 24: Moral Enhancement, the Virtues, and Transhumanism: Moving beyond Gene Editing No access
8. Chapter 25: Epilogue: Introducing a New Transhumanist Theology No access
Bibliography No access Pages 427 - 440
Index No access Pages 441 - 458
About the Contributors No access Pages 459 - 464