GenEthics and religion

Abstract

Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- Beyond Playing God: Critical Religious GenEthics for Pluralistic Societies -- Playing God? -- Foundations: Hermeneutic and Conceptional Reflections -- The Function of Religion in GenEthical Debates: Critical Analyses -- Examining Constructive Efforts of Religious Genethics -- Beyond Playing God -- Context, Acknowledgments, and Dedication -- Foundations: Hermeneutic and Conceptional Reflections -- Genes - Cells - Interpretations -- Prologue -- Hermeneutics -- Political Texts -- Metaphysical Texts -- Who Is the Author of the Genetic Text? -- We Do Our Genes -- References -- Controversies about Human Dignity: Implications for Biotechnology -- Introduction -- Conception I: HD as a Standard of Duties or Rights -- Conception II: HD as a Standard of Virtue -- Conflicting Appeals to HD in Public Bioethics: The Example of Human Genetic Enhancement -- A Public Precautionary Process -- References -- The Function of Religion in GenEthical Debates: Critical Analyses -- Global Bioethics, Theology, and Human Genetic Engineering: The Challenge of Refashioning Human Nature in the Face of Moral and Religious Pluralism -- There Is No Substantive Secular Global Bioethics to Guide Human Genetic Engineering -- The Plurality of Moralities -- The Illusion of Consensus -- Separated by Heresy and Disbelief -- Always a View from Somewhere -- References -- Eschewing Images of Man: Against Anthropological Reductionism in Bioethics -- Religious Language: Radical Openness to Interpretation -- The Dignity of God Seems Not to Be Inviolable: The Abuse of Religious Language in Ethics -- Eschewing Images of Man: Against Anthropological Reductionism in Bioethics -- References -- Children, Bodies, Life: Ethics as the Churches' Biopolitics -- Power of the Churches -- Human Life as a Biological Entity -- Bioethicization of the Churches' Positions.