Technology, Trust, and Religion : Roles of Religions in Controversies Over Ecology and the Modification of Life.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (317 pages)
Intro -- Table of Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Technology, Trust, and Religion -- Part One: OUR TECHNOLOGICAL HUMAN CONDITION -- 1 The Religious Roots of Our Technological Condition -- 2 Technology and What It Means to Be Human -- 3 Technophilia: Internet as a Vessel of Contemporary Religiosity -- Part Two: RELIGIOUS RESOURCES FOR THE ECOLOGICAL CRISIS -- 4 Re-Imagining the Human-Environment Relationship via Religious Traditions and New Scientific Cosmologies -- 5 Religion, Nature, and Modernization in China -- 6 In Search of an Adequate Christian Anthropology -- 7 Seeking the Depth of Nature in a Scientific World -- Part Three: MORALITY AND THE MODIFICATION OF LIFE -- 8 The Value Lab: Deliberating Animal Values in the Animal Biotechology Debate -- 9 'Not by Bread Alone' - Religion in the Dutch Public Debate on GM Food -- 10 Substantial Life Extension and Meanings of Life -- 11 Enhancement Technologies: An Opportunity to Care? -- Part Four: A MATTER OF ARGUMENT OR OF TRUST? -- 12 Religious Arguments in Political Decision Making -- 13 The Knowledge Deficit and Beyond: Sources of Controversy in Public Debates -- 14 Public Trust and Nutrigenomics -- 15 Deep Pluralism: Interfaith Alliances for Progressive Politics -- Index -- Contributors.
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Ecology -- Religious aspects. Technology -- Religious aspects.