Technology, trust, and religion roles of religions in controversies on ecology and the modification of life (Leiden University Press, 2009)
Includes bibliographical references and index
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