The Religion of Transhumanism: A New Belief for Humanity?

Abstract

Several authors have analyzed the relationship between religion and technology, reaching different interpretations. However, the transhumanist utopian movement is presented as a potential development of our technoscientific enterprise that could mean an “overcoming” of religion. Taking into account the criticism of some thinkers regarding this, it is possible to observe a continuity between the transhumanist project and certain hermetic and millenarianist currents. Some of their current proposals and their general position regarding
religious phenomenon are investigated, as well as the opinion of contemporary religion on transhumanism. Then it becomes necessary to return to the first uses and definitions of transhumanism in order to see the extent to which conceptions and aspirations of the original transhumanism would be maintained in contemporary transhumanism. A technoscientific transhumanism approach is also presented, which allows us to approach transhumanism while maintaining a discourse with connotations of an eschatological type that prioritizes a “transcendental” technological development.