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Technology, trust, and religion [electronic resource] : roles of religions in controversies on ecology and the modification of life / edited by Willem B. Drees.

Contributor(s): Series: LUP academicPublication details: [Leiden] : Leiden University Press, ©2009.Description: 1 online resource (316 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789048507924
  • 9048507928
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Technology, trust, and religion.DDC classification:
  • 200 23
LOC classification:
  • BL265.T4 T43 2009
Online resources:
Contents:
Technology, Trust, and Religion / Willem B. Drees -- Part One. Our Technological Human Condition. The Religious Roots of Our Technological Condition / Bronislaw Szerszynski -- Technology and What It Means to Be Human / Taede A. Smedes -- Technophilia: Internet as a Vessel of Contemporary Religiosity / Karen Pärna -- Part Two. Religious Resources for the Ecological Crisis -- Re-Imagining the Human-Environment Relationship via Religious Traditions and New Scientific Cosmologies / Tony Watling -- Religion, Nature, and Modernization in China / James Miller -- In Search of an Adequate Christian Anthropology / Francis Kadaplackal -- Seeking the Depth of Nature in a Scientific World / Forrest Clingerman -- Part Three: Morality and the Modification of Life -- The Value Lab: Deliberation on Animal Values in the Animal Biotechnology Debate / Frank Kupper -- 'Not by Bread Alone' -- Religion in a Dutch Public Debate on GM Food / Michiel van Well -- Substantial Life Extension and Meanings of Life / Peter Derkx -- Enhancement Technologies: An Opportunity to Care? / Annika den Dikken -- Part Four: A Matter of Argument or of Trust? -- Religious Arguments in Political Decision Making / Patrick Loobuyck -- The Knowledge Deficit and Beyond: Sources of Controversy in Public Debates / Olga Crapels -- Public Trust and Nutrigenomics / Franck L.B. Meijboom -- Deep Pluralism: Interfaith Alliances for Progressive Politics / Nancie Erhard.
Summary: Sixteen international scholars conduct a thorough examination of the controversial role of religion in contemporary society.
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Technology, Trust, and Religion / Willem B. Drees -- Part One. Our Technological Human Condition. The Religious Roots of Our Technological Condition / Bronislaw Szerszynski -- Technology and What It Means to Be Human / Taede A. Smedes -- Technophilia: Internet as a Vessel of Contemporary Religiosity / Karen Pärna -- Part Two. Religious Resources for the Ecological Crisis -- Re-Imagining the Human-Environment Relationship via Religious Traditions and New Scientific Cosmologies / Tony Watling -- Religion, Nature, and Modernization in China / James Miller -- In Search of an Adequate Christian Anthropology / Francis Kadaplackal -- Seeking the Depth of Nature in a Scientific World / Forrest Clingerman -- Part Three: Morality and the Modification of Life -- The Value Lab: Deliberation on Animal Values in the Animal Biotechnology Debate / Frank Kupper -- 'Not by Bread Alone' -- Religion in a Dutch Public Debate on GM Food / Michiel van Well -- Substantial Life Extension and Meanings of Life / Peter Derkx -- Enhancement Technologies: An Opportunity to Care? / Annika den Dikken -- Part Four: A Matter of Argument or of Trust? -- Religious Arguments in Political Decision Making / Patrick Loobuyck -- The Knowledge Deficit and Beyond: Sources of Controversy in Public Debates / Olga Crapels -- Public Trust and Nutrigenomics / Franck L.B. Meijboom -- Deep Pluralism: Interfaith Alliances for Progressive Politics / Nancie Erhard.

Sixteen international scholars conduct a thorough examination of the controversial role of religion in contemporary society.

English.

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