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Machines for Making Gods: Mormonism, Transhumanism, and Worlds Without End, Bialecki Jon


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Автор: Bialecki Jon
Название:  Machines for Making Gods: Mormonism, Transhumanism, and Worlds Without End
ISBN: 9780823299362
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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ISBN-10: 0823299368
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 368
Вес: 0.56 кг.
Дата издания: 01.03.2022
Язык: English
Размер: 230 x 152 x 26
Ключевые слова: Christian Churches & denominations,Impact of science & technology on society,Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, RELIGION / Christianity / Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon),SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects,SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
Подзаголовок: Mormonism, transhumanism, and worlds without end
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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.


Дополнительное описание:

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

Автор: Bialecki Jon
Название: Machines for Making Gods: Mormonism, Transhumanism, and Worlds Without End
ISBN: 082329935X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780823299355
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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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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