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| Title: | Transhumanism as a Religious Product of the West: A Comparative Analysis with Christianity |
| Authors: | Sherbert, Michael Gilbert |
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| Keywords: | eschatology
transhumanism
comparative method
comparison
soul
mind
Christianity
religion
technology
millenarianism
sacred
identity
secularization |
| Issue Date: | 2010 |
| Abstract: | This project examines transhumanism and its historical relationship to Christianity in the
West. Through a comparison of the eschatologies of transhumanism and Christianity this
project argues that transhumanist ideas which espouse the inevitability of mechanical life
and the immortalization of the human mind are akin to a particular understanding of
Christian eschatological belief. In doing this comparison, this project demonstrates that
transhumanist theories of the future state of humanity may in fact be religious extensions
of Christian apocalyptic traditions in the West. A central basis of this eschatological
comparison between these two worldviews includes the equation of the transhumanist
understanding of the mind with particular Christian understandings of the soul. This
venture entertains the idea of conceiving transhumanism as a religion and as such
discusses some potential implications of this conception. An analysis of the comparative
method in this case is also discussed. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1974/5969 |
| Appears in Collections: | Religious Studies Graduate Theses
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