Mind out of Place

Transhuman Spirituality

Bibliographic Data

ID8204540
AuthorsAbou Farman (0009-0009-5480-0568, New School, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume87
Issue1
Pages57-80
Publication date2019-03-06
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of the American Academy of Religion (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-7189 • E-ISSN: 1477-4585
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/jaarel/lfy039
OpenAlexW2898323601
LanguageEN
Citations received12
References cited36

Transhumanism, as social movement and ideology, pushes for the technoscientific transcendence of the limits of the human. Some within the movement have also adopted terms like religion and spirituality to denote their own groups and goals and describe their metaphysical forays. Secularism, which is to contain religion and define its domain and boundaries clearly, and maybe eventually replace it, keeps generating religion and spirituality as its own effect. Transhumanism presents a complex technoscientific case of this. The question is not whether transhumanism is religious or is a religion but rather what kind of new formations and subjectivities, new allegiances and attractions, are emerging in the secular interplay of religion, spirituality, science, and technology, especially as put into play by transhumanism—that is, more broadly speaking, as put into play in the transitional human space in which technology, power, and ideology are changing the way we can be humans.

Epistemology · Ideology · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Secularism · Sociology · Spirituality · Theology · Transcendence (philosophy) · Transhumanism · Law · Media, Religion, Digital Communication · Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations · Philosophy · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices

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