GenEthics and Religion
Editors
G. Pfleiderer Basel
G. Brahier Basel
K. Lindpaintner Newark, Del.
_____________________G. PfleidererDepartment of TheologyUniversity of BaselMissionsstrasse 17aCH-4056 BaselSwitzerland | _____________________G. BrahierDepartment of TheologyUniversity of BaselMissionsstrasse 17aCH-4056 BaselSwitzerland |
_____________________K. LindpaintnerSDIX111 Pencader DriveNewark, DE 19702USA |
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GenEthics and religion / volume editors, G. Pfleiderer, G. Brahier, K. Lindpaintner.
p. ; cm.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN 978-3-8055-8973-4 (hard cover: alk. paper)
1. Genetic engineering––Religious aspects––Congresses. I. Pfleiderer, Georg. II. Brahier, G. (Gabriela) III. Lindpaintner, K. (Klaus)
[DNLM: 1. Genetics––ethics––Congresses. 2. Bioethical Issues––Congresses. 3. Religion and Medicine––Congresses. QU 450 G3272 2010]
QH438.7.G4116 2010
205'.64957––dc22
2010014350
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Contents
Beyond Playing God: Critical Religious GenEthics for Pluralistic Societies
Pfleiderer, G.; Brahier, G. (Basel); Lindpaintner, K. (Newark, Del.)
Foundations: Hermeneutic and Conceptional Reflections
Genes – Cells – Interpretations: What Hermeneutics Can Add to Genetics and to Bioethics
Rehmann-Sutter, C. (Lübeck)
Controversies about Human Dignity: Implications for Biotechnology
Childress, J.F. (Charlottesville, Va.)
The Function of Religion in GenEthical Debates: Critical Analyses
Engelhardt, Jr., H.T. (Houston, Tex.)
Eschewing Images of Man: Against Anthropological Reductionism in Bioethics
Graf, F.W. (Munich)
Children, Bodies, Life: Ethics as the Churches’ Biopolitics
Gehring, P. (Darmstadt)
Müller, H. (Basel)
Examining Constructive Efforts of Religious GenEthics (I): Christian Theological GenEthics
‘Biopower’ – Ethical and Theological Considerations
Mieth, D. (Erfurt)
First Sheep, Then Human Beings? Theological and Ethical Reflections on the Use of Gene Technology
Schockenhoff, E. (Freiburg)
Peters, T. (Berkeley, Calif.)
Examining Constructive Efforts of Religious GenEthics (II): Jewish, Islamic, and Buddhist GenEthics
The Jewish Perspective on GenEthics
Green, R.M. (Hanover, N.H.)
Human Genetic Technologies and Islamic Bioethics
Nor, S.N.M. (Kuala Lumpur)
Buddhism and Human Genome Research
Ratanakul, P. (Nakornpathom)
Pfleiderer G, Brahier G, Lindpaintner K (eds): GenEthics and Religion. Basel, Karger, 2010, pp 1–11
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Beyond Playing God: Critical Religious GenEthics for Pluralistic Societies