Calvin Mercer is Professor of Religion at East Carolina University, USA, and founding chair of the American Academy of Religion's Human Enhancement and Transhumanism Unit.

Tracy J. Trothen is Professor of Ethics at Queen's University, Canada, and co-chair of the American Academy of Religion's Artificial Intelligence Seminar.

Introduces radical human enhancement technologies and their religious implications

Invites conversation and reflection on critical issues, without displaying bias for or against human enhancement

Includes biographies for further study and questions for discussion

1. Introduction.- 2. Existing and Possible Technologies: How We Biohack.- 3. Transhumanism, the Posthuman, and the Religions: Exploring Basic Concepts.- 4. Radical Human Enhancement and Ethics: Questions We Must Ask.- 5. Superlongevity and Other Physical Enhancements.- 6. Cognitive Enhancement and Moral Bioenhancement: Becoming Smarter and More Moral.- 7. Affective Enhancement and Spiritual Enhancement: Feeling Happier and More Spiritual.- 8. Cryonics: Buried, Burned, or ... Frozen.- 9. Mind Uploading: Cyber Beings and Digital Immortality.- 10. Superintelligence: Bringing on the Singularity.- 11. Religion 2.0 and the Enhanced Technological Future.