The Perennial Human and Beyond

Jackson, Roy

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“…Given the heritage of transhumanism, it is perhaps not surprising that its emergence as a kind of secular religion or quasi‐religion has rebounded toward traditional religions and has led to new ways of thinking about such institutions. Lincoln Cannon's Mormon Transhumanist Association was probably the first significant effort in this direction (see Cannon 2017); but by the second decade of the twenty‐first century, transhumanist approaches found homes in other Christian circles (Butler 2020; Cole‐Turner 2015; Thweatt‐Bates 2016), Buddhism (LaTorra 2015; Hughes 2019), Islam (Jackson 2020), and secular cultural movements, like Afrofuturism (Kim 2017). For all these intersections with religious thought and practice, still transhumanism has by and large failed to encompass marginalized communities.…”

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Marginalization and Transcendence in Transhumanism and Minjung Theology

Song¹,

Geraci²

2022

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The visibility of transhumanism in pop culture reveals its dramatic advance in twenty-first-century life. The more widespread the movement becomes, the more important it is to consider how transhumanism might be made relevant to global humanity. This article orients technological progress by drawing transhumanism into conversation with minjung theology from Korea. Minjung theology offers global tech culture-and its pursuit of technological salvation-an ethical foundation through attention to Han (an emotion specific to those who suffer from individual, sociopolitical, economic, and cultural oppression but have been unable to express it adequately) and the lived reality of those who are often excluded from benefits of technological society. Working in the other direction, transhumanist perspectives on technology offer minjung theology an opportunity to expand its reach through the development of a transcendent theological perspective.

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