Radical enhancement programs, advocated by transhumanists, could arguably have a more profound impact than any other development in human history. Reflecting a range of opinion about the desirability of extreme enhancement, leading scholars in the field join with emerging scholars to foster enhanced conversation on these topics.
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. Radical enhancement programs, advocated by transhumanists, could arguably have a more profound impact than any other development in human history.
Reflecting a range of opinion about the desirability of extreme enhancement, leading scholars in the field join with emerging scholars to foster enhanced conversation on these topics.
1. Coming into Focus: An Introduction to the Collection.- 2. In Extropy
We Trust: A Systems Theory Approach to Identifying Transhumanisms Religious
Philosophy.- 3. Christian Transhumanism.- 4. Mormonism Mandates
Transhumanism.- 5. Technological Apocalypse: Transhumanism as an End-Time
Religious Movement.- 6. A Theological Assessment of Whole Brain Emulation: On
the Path to Superintelligence.- 7. Is Transhumanism a Distraction? On the
Good of Being Boring.- 8. What Exactly Are We Trying to Accomplish? The Role
of Desire and Aversion in Transhuman Visions.- 9. Genesis 2.0: Transhumanism,
Catholicism, and the Future of Creation.- 10. Have You Believed Because You
Have Seen? Transhumanist Qualms about Enhancement of Religious Experience
through Alterations to the Visual Field.- 11. The Myth of Moral
Bioenhancement: An Evolutionary Anthropology and Theological
Critique.- 12. Ancient Aspirations Meet the Enlightenment.- 13. Unfit for the
Future? Sin, Salvation, and Moral Bioenhancement in Christian
Perspective.- 14. Enhancing Moral Goodness: Towards A Virtue Ethics of Moral
Bioenhancement.- 15. Moral Bioenhancement From the Margins: A Feminist
Christian Reconsideration.- 16. Technologizing Transcendence: A Critique of
Transhumanism.- 17 Must We Die? Transhumanism, Religion and the Fear of
Death.- 18. Dining and Dunking the Dead: Post-Mortem Rituals in First-Century
Hellenistic Society and What They Reveal about the Role of the Body in
Christianity.- 19. Making Us Better: Believe It or Not?
Tracy J. Trothen is Associate Professor of Religion at Queens University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. She currently co-chairs the American Academy of Religion Human Enhancement and Transhumanism Group.
Calvin Mercer is Professor of Religious Studies, East Carolina University, USA. He is co-editor of Palgrave Studies in the Future of Humanity and Its Successors and founding chair of the American Academy of Religion Human Enhancement and Transhumanism Group.
