Technology, Trust, and Religion

Table of Contents - 6[-]Preface and Acknowledgements - 8[-]Technology, Trust, and Religion - 10[-]Part One: OUR TECHNOLOGICAL HUMAN CONDITION - 24[-] 1 The Religious Roots of Our Technological Condition - 26[-] 2 Technology and What It Means to Be Human - 42[-] 3 Technophilia: Internet as a Vessel of Contemporary Religiosity - 56[-]Part Two: RELIGIOUS RESOURCES FOR THEECOLOGICAL CRISIS - 76[-] 4 Re-Imagining the Human-Environment Relationship via Religious Traditions and New Scientifi c Cosmologies - 78[-] 5 Religion, Nature, and Modernization in China - 108[-] 6 In Search of an Adequate Christian Anthropology - 124[-] 7 Seeking the Depth of Nature in a Scientifi c World - 142[-]Part Three: MORALITY AND THE MODIFICATION OFLIFE - 158[-] 8 The Value Lab: Deliberating Animal Values in the Animal Biotechology Debate - 160[-] 9 'Not by Bread Alone' - Religion in the Dutch Public Debate on GM Food - 180[-] 10 Substantial Life Extension and Meanings of Life - 198[-] 11 Enhancement Technologies: An Opportunity to Care? - 222[-]Part Four: A MATTER OF ARGUMENT OR OF TRUST? - 236[-] 12 Religious Arguments in Political Decision Making - 238[-] 13 The Knowledge Defi cit and Beyond: Sources of Controversy in Public Debates - 256[-] 14 Public Trust and Nutrigenomics - 270[-] 15 Deep Pluralism: Interfaith Alliances for Progressive Politics - 290[-]Index - 304[-]Contributors - 314