Description |
1 online resource (316 pages) : illustrations. |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Description |
text file |
Series |
LUP academic
|
|
LUP academic.
|
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Technology, Trust, and Religion / Willem B. Drees -- Part One. Our Technological Human Condition. 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 -- 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 -- 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. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Language |
English. |
Subject |
Technology -- Religious aspects.
|
|
Technology -- Religious aspects. |
|
Human ecology -- Religious aspects.
|
|
Human ecology -- Religious aspects. |
|
Genetic engineering -- Religious aspects.
|
|
Genetic engineering -- Religious aspects. |
|
Biotechnology -- Religious aspects.
|
|
Biotechnology -- Religious aspects. |
|
Religion and science.
|
|
Religion and science. |
Indexed Term |
Multi-User. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
|
Added Author |
Drees, Willem B., 1954-
|
Other Form: |
Print version: Technology, trust, and religion. [Leiden] : Leiden University Press, ©2009 9789087280598 9087280599 (OCoLC)317754140 |
ISBN |
9789048507924 (electronic book) |
|
9048507928 (electronic book) |
|
9087280599 (paper) |
|
9789087280598 (paper) |
|
1282129252 |
|
9781282129252 |
Standard No. |
9786612129254 |
|