Title Technology, trust, and religion : roles of religions in controversies on ecology and the modification of life / edited by Willem B. Drees.

Publication Info.	[Leiden] : Leiden University Press, [2009]
	©2009

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Description	1 online resource (316 pages) : illustrations.
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. The 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 -- The 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 -- The 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.
Note	Print version record.
Language	English.
Subject	Technology -- Religious aspects.
	Human ecology -- Religious aspects.
	Genetic engineering -- Religious aspects.
	Biotechnology -- Religious aspects.
	Religion and science.
	RELIGION -- Comparative Religion.
	RELIGION -- Reference.
	Humanities.
	Religion and beliefs.
	Biotechnology -- Religious aspects. (OCoLC)fst01750562
	Genetic engineering -- Religious aspects. (OCoLC)fst00940045
	Human ecology -- Religious aspects. (OCoLC)fst00962964
	Religion and science. (OCoLC)fst01093848
	Technology -- Religious aspects. (OCoLC)fst01145180
	Ecology -- Religious aspects.
	Electronic books. -- local.
	Technology -- Religious aspects.
Indexed Term	Multi-User.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	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 bk.)
	9048507928 (electronic bk.)
Standard No.	9786612129254

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