Transhumanism and the body: the world religions speak

As a result of the fast-developing array of human enhancement therapies and technologies - commonly subsumed under the term "transhumanism"--The "flesh and blood" body of the human species may be significantly modified in the immediate future, or eventually eliminated, if some ha...

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Contributors: Mercer, Calvin R. 1953- (Editor)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: New York, NY Palgrave Macmillan 2014
In:Year: 2014
Series/Journal:Palgrave studies in the future of humanity and its successors
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Religion / Transhumanism / Transcendence / Body
Further subjects:B Collection of essays
B Human Body Religious aspects
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505 8 0 |t Preface 
505 8 0 |t Introduction: The transhumanist FAQ : a general introduction  |r Nick Bostrom 
505 8 0 |t Buddhism : the transformed body in Buddhism  |r Derek F. Maher 
505 8 0 |t Daoism 
505 8 0 |t enhancing cosmic energy : the Daoist body in the twenty-first century  |r Livia Kohn 
505 8 0 |t Hinduism : many paths, many births  |r Christopher Key Chapple 
505 8 0 |t Islam 
505 8 0 |t God's deputy : Islam and transhumanism  |r Hamid Mavani 
505 8 0 |t Jainism : the good life and the transcendence of death  |r Christopher Key Chapple 
505 8 0 |t Judaism 
505 8 0 |t the body belongs to God : Judaism and transhumanism  |r Elliot N. Dorff 
505 8 0 |t Mormonism 
505 8 0 |t suffering, agency, and redemption : Mormonism and transhumanism  |r Adam S. Miller 
505 8 0 |t Protestant Christianity 
505 8 0 |t sorting out soma in the debate about transhumanism : one Protestant's perspective  |r Calvin Mercer 
505 8 0 |t Roman Catholic Christianity 
505 8 0 |t embodiment and relationality : Roman Catholic concerns about transhumanist proposals  |r James F. Keenan 
505 8 0 |t Afterword 
505 8 0 |t Concluding reflections : yearning for enhancement  |r Ronald Cole-Turner 
505 8 0 |t Works cited 
505 8 0 |t About the contributors 
505 8 0 |t Index 
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