Technology, trust, and religion roles of religions in controversies on ecology and the modification of life /

Technology, trust, and religion roles of religions in controversies on ecology and the modification of life / [electronic resource] : edited by Willem B. Drees. - [Leiden] : Leiden University Press, ©2009. - 1 online resource (316 pages) : illustrations. - LUP academic . - LUP academic. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Technology, Trust, and Religion / Our Technological Human Condition. The Religious Roots of Our Technological Condition / Technology and What It Means to Be Human / Technophilia: Internet as a Vessel of Contemporary Religiosity / Religious Resources for the Ecological Crisis -- Re-Imagining the Human-Environment Relationship via Religious Traditions and New Scientific Cosmologies / Religion, Nature, and Modernization in China / In Search of an Adequate Christian Anthropology / Seeking the Depth of Nature in a Scientific World / Morality and the Modification of Life -- The Value Lab: Deliberation on Animal Values in the Animal Biotechnology Debate / 'Not by Bread Alone' -- Religion in a Dutch Public Debate on GM Food / Substantial Life Extension and Meanings of Life / Enhancement Technologies: An Opportunity to Care? / A Matter of Argument or of Trust? -- Religious Arguments in Political Decision Making / The Knowledge Deficit and Beyond: Sources of Controversy in Public Debates / Public Trust and Nutrigenomics / Deep Pluralism: Interfaith Alliances for Progressive Politics / Willem B. Drees -- Bronislaw Szerszynski -- Taede A. Smedes -- Karen Pärna -- Tony Watling -- James Miller -- Francis Kadaplackal -- Forrest Clingerman -- Frank Kupper -- Michiel van Well -- Peter Derkx -- Annika den Dikken -- Patrick Loobuyck -- Olga Crapels -- Franck L.B. Meijboom -- Nancie Erhard. Part One. Part Two. Part Three: Part Four:

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


English.

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Technology--Religious aspects.
Human ecology--Religious aspects.
Genetic engineering--Religious aspects.
Biotechnology--Religious aspects.
Religion and science.
Technologie--Aspect religieux.
Écologie humaine--Aspect religieux.
Manipulations génétiques--Aspect religieux.
Biotechnologie--Aspect religieux.
Religion et sciences.
Humanities.
Religion and beliefs.
RELIGION--Comparative Religion.
RELIGION--Reference.
Biotechnology--Religious aspects.
Genetic engineering--Religious aspects.
Human ecology--Religious aspects.
Religion and science.
Technology--Religious aspects.

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