Machines for Making Gods Mormonism, Transhumanism, and Worlds without End
Machines for Making Gods: Mormonism, Transhumanism, and Worlds without End

An engrossing account of the way religion and the technological imagination come together in the world's largest religious transhumanist organization. The Mormon faith may seem so different from aspirations to transcend the human through technological means that it is hard to imagine how these...

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1. Verfasser: Bialecki, Jon (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York, NY Fordham University Press [2022]
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RELIGION / Christianity / Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon)
Technology > Religious aspects > Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Transhumanism > Religious aspects > Christianity
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Zusammenfassung:An engrossing account of the way religion and the technological imagination come together in the world's largest religious transhumanist organization. The Mormon faith may seem so different from aspirations to transcend the human through technological means that it is hard to imagine how these two concerns could even exist alongside one another, let alone serve together as the joint impetus for a social movement. Machines for Making Gods investigates the tensions between science and religion through which an imaginative group of young Mormons and ex-Mormons have found new ways of understanding the world.The Mormon Transhumanist Association (MTA) believes that God intended humanity to achieve Mormonism's promise of theosis through imminent technological advances.
Drawing on a nineteenth-century Mormon tradition of religious speculation to reimagine Mormon eschatological hopes as near-future technological possibilities, they envision such current and possible advances as cryonic preservation, computer simulation, and quantum archeology as paving the way for the resurrection of the dead, the creation of worlds without end, and promise of undergoing theosis-of becoming a god. Addressing the role of speculation in the anthropology of religion, Machines for Making Gods undoes debates about secular transhumanism's relation to religion by highlighting the differences an explicitly religious transhumanism makes.Charting the conflicts and resonances between secular transhumanism and Mormonism, Bialecki shows how religious speculation has opened up imaginative horizons to give birth to new forms of Mormonism, including a particular progressive branch of the faith and even such formations as queer polygamy.
The book also reveals how the MTA's speculative account of God and technology together has helped to forestall some of the social pressure that comes with apostasy in much of the Mormon Intermountain West.A fascinating ethnography of a group with much to say about crucial junctures of modern culture, Machines for Making Gods illustrates how the scientific imagination can be better understood when viewed through anthropological accounts of myth
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Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (368 pages)
ISBN:9780823299386
DOI:10.1515/9780823299386

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