Religion and Transhumanism: The Unknown Future of Human Enhancement - Hardcover

Should technology be used to improve human faculties such as cognition and longevity? This thought-provoking dialogue between "transhumanism" and religion examines enhancement technologies that could radically alter the human species. * Introduces some of the hardest and most pressing issues that will determine the future of the human race * Examines current scholarly questions and thoughts about transhumanism * Asks new questions relative to the intersection of human enhancement and religion * Explores what it means to be human in a technologically changing world

Calvin Mercer, PhD, is professor of religion and director of the Religious Studies Program at East Carolina University. Tracy J. Trothen, PhD, is associate professor of religion at the Queen's University School of Religion, in Kingston, Ontario.