Religion and Human Enhancement: Death, Values, and Morality

1. Coming into Focus: An Introduction to the Collection

Section 1: "Common Ground" between Transhumanism and Religions

2. In Extropy We Trust: A Systems Theory Approach to Identifying Transhumanism's Religious Philosophy

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

Section 2: Desires and Values

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

Section 3: Moral Bioenhancement

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

Section 4: Longing for Immortality: Meanings of Death

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?