Bialecki Machines for Making Gods

Mormonism, Transhumanism, and Worlds without End
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-8232-9938-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 368 Seiten

An engrossing account of the way religion and the technological imagination come together in the world’s largest religious transhumanist organization.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bialecki, Jon

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Protestantismus, evangelische und protestantische Kirchen Konfessionen amerikanischen Ursprungs
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Naturwissenschaften, Technik, Medizin
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ix

A Note on Names and Terms xxiii

Series Zero: “Children of God would try to play God” 1

Part I: Dramatis personae
First Series: Mormonisms 55
Second Series: Transhumanisms 76
Third Series: Mormon Transhumanism 94

Part II: Mormon/Transhuman
Fourth Series: Kolob runs on Domo 113
Fifth Series: Discipline, Belief, and Speculative Religion 136

Part III: Science Fictions
Sixth Series: Freezing, Burying, Burning 161
Seventh Series: “as if awakening from a night’s sleep” 211
Eighth Series: Worlds without End 240
Ninth Series: Queer Polygamy 256

Series: Problems, Planes, and Lines of Flight 293

Acknowledgments 303
Notes 307
Bibliography 327
Index 353

Über Autor(innen)

Bialecki Jon:
Jon Bialecki is Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of A Diagram for Fire: Miracles and Variation in an American Charismatic Movement, which won the Sharon Stephens Prize and was a finalist for the Clifford Geertz Prize.Jon Bialecki is Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of A Diagram for Fire: Miracles and Variation in an American Charismatic Movement, which won the Sharon Stephens Prize and was a finalist for the Clifford Geertz Prize.