[PHILOS-L] CfP: Edited Volume on Religion, Transhumanism, and Posthumanism [Deadline: June 14th, 2026]
Schuetz, Nils
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Call for Papers
Edited Volume on Religion, Transhumanism, and Posthumanism
Working Title:
Gods and men? Post- and Transhumanism in Interfaith Perspective
We invite contributions to an edited academic volume offering a critical theological reflection on transhumanism and posthumanism from an interfaith perspective. While these developments have already generated a growing body of religious and theological responses, this volume seeks to move beyond initial engagements by critically assessing their assumptions, methods, and conclusions.
Transhumanism raises questions concerning human enhancement and the transformation of human capacities, while posthumanism challenges established understandings of the human by rethinking anthropocentrism, embodiment, and the boundaries between human and non-human life. In response, religious thinkers have begun to articulate a range of positions across different traditions.
This volume aims to provide a second-stage reflection: not only engaging transhumanism and posthumanism themselves but also evaluating how theology has thus far responded to them. It will bring into dialogue a wide range of religious traditions—including Christian (Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant), Islamic, Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu, and Chinese religious traditions—in order to examine how contemporary theology can refine, deepen, or rethink its engagement with these developments.
The volume is currently being developed for submission in conversation with leading academic publishers in theology and religious studies.
Contributions may address (but are not limited to):
- Critical evaluations of existing theological responses to transhumanism
- Reassessing religious engagements with posthumanist thought
- Strengths and limitations of current theological approaches
- Reconfigurations of theological anthropology in light of these debates
- Human enhancement and its theological evaluation across traditions
- Posthuman critiques of anthropocentrism and their theological implications
- Comparative interfaith perspectives on theology and the posthuman
- Embodiment, relationality, and materiality in contemporary theological reflection
- Constructive proposals for future theological engagement
Interested contributors are invited to submit:
- A proposed chapter title
- An abstract of 150–200 words
- A short biographical note (2–3 sentences)
Deadline for abstracts:
June 14th, 2026
- Chapters will be approximately 6,000–9,000 words (including references).
- Full chapters will be requested only after the volume proposal has been reviewed and provisionally accepted by a publisher.
- The editors aim to produce a coherent and thematically integrated volume.
Please send abstracts and inquiries to the editors:
Dr. Angelos Mavropoulos, Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow, Heidelberg University
(a.mavr...@ts.uni-heidelberg.de)
Dr.
Nils Schütz
Post-Doctoral Researcher| Bio-/Technology & Theological Ethics|
Faculty of Theology & Max Planck School "Matter to Life"| Heidelberg University|
Room 219| Kisselgasse 1| 69117 Heidelberg|
Tel. +49 (0)6221/54-3278| E-mail: nils.schuetz@ts.uni-heidelberg.de|
https://www.theologie.uni-heidelberg.de/de/personen/nils-schuetz
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