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Author: Jon Bialecki
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Imprint: Fordham University Press
ISBN: 9780823299362
ISBN 10: 0823299368
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 01 March 2022
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Bialecki takes readers through a fascinating world in a thrilling ethnographic investigation of how and why the Mormon Transhumanist Association flourishes. A brilliant tracing of the complicated kinship between religion and transhumanism, this book is more than a dive into one subgroup but rather a sophisticated theoretical analysis of conditions that make such a group possible. ---Taylor Petrey, author of Tabernacles of Clay: Sexuality and Gender in Modern Mormonism, Jon Bialecki's Machines for Making New Gods is a major work of scholarship--truly impressive in its scope, range, and depth. There's simply no other book like it, so creative is its composition and canvas. It will force us to reconsider a lot of literature in anthropology and well beyond--on Christianity, on secularity, on media, on matter, and, perhaps above all, on the very boundaries of life. ---Matthew Engelke, author of How to Think Like an Anthropologist,
Bialecki takes readers through a fascinating world in a thrilling ethnographic investigation of how and why the Mormon Transhumanist Association flourishes. A brilliant tracing of the complicated kinship between religion and transhumanism, this book is more than a dive into one subgroup but rather a sophisticated theoretical analysis of conditions that make such a group possible.---Taylor Petrey, author of Tabernacles of Clay: Sexuality and Gender in Modern Mormonism, Jon Bialecki's Machines for Making New Gods is a major work of scholarship--truly impressive in its scope, range, and depth. There's simply no other book like it, so creative is its composition and canvas. It will force us to reconsider a lot of literature in anthropology and well beyond--on Christianity, on secularity, on media, on matter, and, perhaps above all, on the very boundaries of life.---Matthew Engelke, author of How to Think Like an Anthropologist,
Author Information
Jon Bialecki is Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of A Diagram for Fire: Miracles and Variation in an American Charismatic Movement, which won the Sharon Stephens Prize and was a finalist for the Clifford Geertz Prize.
