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.

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Foreword
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Editors and Contributors
Part I Introduction
Chapter 1 Coming into Focus: An Introduction to the Collection
Part II “Common Ground” between Transhumanism and Religions
Chapter 2 In Extropy We Trust: A Systems Theory Approach to Identifying Transhumanism’s Religious Philosophy
Chapter 3 Christian Transhumanism
Chapter 4 Mormonism Mandates Transhumanism
Chapter 5 Technological Apocalypse: Transhumanism as an End-Time Religious Movement
Chapter 6 A Theological Assessment of Whole Brain Emulation: On the Path to Superintelligence
Part III Desires and Values
Chapter 7 Is Transhumanism a Distraction? On the Good of Being Boring
Chapter 8 What Exactly Are We Trying to Accomplish? The Role of Desire in Transhumanist Visions
Chapter 9 Genesis 2.0: Transhumanism, Catholicism, and the Future of Creation
Chapter 10 “Have You Believed Because You Have Seen?”: Human and Transhuman Desires for Alterations to the Visual Field and Religious Experience
Part IV Moral Bioenhancement
Chapter 11 The Myth of Moral Bio-Enhancement: An Evolutionary Anthropology and Theological Critique
Chapter 12 Ancient Aspirations Meet the Enlightenment
Chapter 13 A Transhumanist Moral Bioenhancement Program: A Critique from Barth and Bonhoeffer
Chapter 14 Enhancing Moral Goodness: Toward a Virtue Ethics of Moral Bioenhancement
Chapter 15 Moral Bioenhancement from the Margins: An Intersectional Christian Theological Reconsideration
Part V Longing for Immortality: Meanings of Death
Chapter 16 Technologizing Transcendence: A Critique of Transhumanism
Chapter 17 Must We Die? Transhumanism, Religion, and the Fear of Death
Chapter 18 Dining and Dunking the Dead: Postmortem Rituals in First-Century Hellenistic Society and What They Reveal About the Role of the Body in Christianity
Part VI Conclusion
Chapter 19 Making Us Better: Believe It or Not?
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