There and Back Again: Transhumanist Evangelism in Science Fiction and Popular Science

Popular science and science-fiction depictions of immortality through uploading minds are "authenticfakes": secular practices that do authentic religious workfor transhumanist communities. Although in the 1 980s sciencefiction departedfrom this practice and rejected transhuman promises of...

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Main Author: Geraci, Robert M. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Equinox [2011]
In: Implicit religion
Year: 2011, Volume: 14, Issue: 2, Pages: 141-172
Further subjects:B Evangelistic work
B Arthur C. Clarke
B Down and Out In the Magic Kingdom
B Cory Doctorow
B STROSS, Charles
B DOCTOROW, Gory
B Julian Huxley
B Robert Ettinger
B Charles Stross
B Religion
B JBS Haldane
B FM-2030
B Secular Humanism
B IMMORTALITY of the soul
B Science Fiction
B ACCELERANDO (Book)
B Transhumanism
B Cyberpunk
B Max More
B Extropianism
B Accelerando
B DOWN & out in the Magic Kingdom (Book)
B Apocalyptic Al
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