If the science of 'radical life extension' is realized and the technology becomes widely available, it would arguably have a more radical impact on humanity than any other development in history. This book is the first concerted effort to explore implications of radical life extension from the perspective of the world's major religious traditions. INDICE: Introduction: Living For 1,000 Yearsb Or Longer; Co-Editors D.F.Maher ; C.Mercer - Radical Life Extension: Technological Aspects; A.de Grey - The Evidence-based Pursuit of Radical Life Extension; P.Estep - Be Careful What You Wish For? Radical Life Extension Coram Deo: A Reformed Protestant Perspective; N.M.de S.Cameron ; A.DeBaets - Extreme Longevity Research: A Progressive Protestant Perspective; R.Cole-Turner - Becoming Yet More Like God: A Jewish Perspective on Radical Life Extension; Rabbi E.N.Dorff - Karma, Austerity, and Time-Cycles: Jainism and Radical Life Extension; S.Fohr - Told You So: ExtremeLongevity and Daoist Realization; L.Kohn - Churning the Ocean of Milk: Imaging the Hindu Tantric Response to Radical Life Technologies; Jeffrey Lidke in collaboration with J.W.Dirnberger - Two Wings of a Bird: Radical Life Extension from a Buddhist Perspective; D.F.Maher - ...A Thousand Years, Less Fifty: Toward a Quranic View of Extreme Longevity; A.Y.Musa - Radical Life Extension: Implications for Roman Catholicism; T.L.Nichols - 'May You Live Long': Religious Implications of Extreme Longevity in Hinduism; A.Sharma - Afterword: Theological, Spiritual, and Ethical Reflections on Radical Life Extension; T.Peters
- ISBN: 978-0-230-60794-1
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 208
- Fecha Publicación: 15/08/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés