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Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the Future of Humanity and its Successors (PSFHS)
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"To say that the questions this volume raises are better than the answers it proposes does not for a moment diminish the value of this rich anthology of recent thinking in the study of radical life extension. Two masterful introductory papers describe the current state of medical and technological research and raise all the significant issues. The responses that follow from representatives of world religions are properly tentative and exploratory but extraordinarily provocative. They stretch the imagination and left this reader confronting his own mortality in a very different spirit. The writing throughout is accessible to the lay reader, but be prepared. This book may affect you in unanticipated ways." - Rabbi Neil Gillman, Professor of Jewish Philosophy, Jewish Theological Seminary
"In this fine study an outstanding group of scholars brings ancient religious traditions to bear on the possibilities for radical life extension.The results offer fascinating challenges to bothscience and religion as longevity inches toward eternity." - Bill J. Leonard, Dean of the School of Divinity and Professor of Church History, Wake Forest University
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Book Title: Religion and the Implications of Radical Life Extension
Editors: Derek F. Maher, Calvin Mercer
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the Future of Humanity and its Successors
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230100725
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-60794-1Published: 18 August 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-137-44859-0Published: 10 September 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-10072-5Published: 31 August 2009
Series ISSN: 2945-6592
Series E-ISSN: 2945-6606
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 195
Topics: Sociology of Religion, Religion and Society, Social Aspects of Religion, Philosophy of Religion