Can We Imagine a Human Future?: Afrofuturism, Transhumanism, and Human Life in Christ

This paper pushes theological engagements with transhumanism to attend to issues of race, gender, and sexual orientation through analysis of three works of speculative fiction – Greg Egan’s Diaspora, Octavia E. Butler’s Xenogenesis trilogy, and Nnedi Okorafor’s Binti trilogy. Where Egan, alongside m...

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Main Author: Lenow, Joseph E. ca. 20./21. Jh. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group 2021
In: Political theology
Year: 2021, Volume: 22, Issue: 4, Pages: 332-349
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Afrofuturismus / Transhumanism / Bioethics / Christian life
IxTheo Classification:CB Christian life; spirituality
CF Christianity and Science
NCJ Ethics of science
Further subjects:B Human Enhancement
B Afrofuturism
B Nnedi Okorafor
B Transhumanism
B Octavia Butler
B Bioethics
B Greg Egan
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