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Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the Future of Humanity and its Successors (PSFHS)
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"It's time for religious folks to take a look at their bodies. Just how valuable is our body? It's time to ask this, because transhumanists are proposing a more highly evolved bodiless existence. Mercer and Maher ask us: do we really want to go there?" - Ted Peters, Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences, Graduate Theological Union, USA
"Technological progress entails manipulating nature for our own ends, so is easily seen by people of faith as challenging the wisdom of the Creator. But were we not created with the ability and desire to engage in technology? Was it a sin to develop fire, or medicine? These essays will forcefully reassure readers that further technological progress, even if sometimes burdened with the unnecessarily scary label 'transhumanism,' will also be God's work." - Aubrey de Grey, Chief Science Officer, SENS Research Foundation, UK
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Transhumanism and the Body
Book Subtitle: The World Religions Speak
Editors: Calvin Mercer, Derek F. Maher
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the Future of Humanity and its Successors
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137342768
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-36583-5Published: 19 September 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-47391-5Published: 19 September 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-34276-8Published: 17 September 2014
Series ISSN: 2945-6592
Series E-ISSN: 2945-6606
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 217
Topics: Sociology, general, Ethics, Moral Philosophy, Religious Studies, general, Comparative Religion, Cognitive Psychology