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pp. XV, 354 1st ed. 2020 edition NO-PA16APR2015-KAP.
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- Title
- Religion and Biopolitics
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2019
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 3030145794
- ISBN 13
- 9783030145798
Given the profound moral-ethical controversies regarding the use of new biotechnologies in medical research and treatment, such as embryonic research and cloning, this book sheds new light on the role of religious organizations and actors in influencing the bio-political debates and decision-making processes. Further, it analyzes the ways in which religious traditions and actors formulate their bio-ethical positions and which rationales they use to validate their positions.
The book offers a range of case studies on fourteen Western democracies, highlighting the bio-ethical and political debates over human stem cell research, therapeutic and reproductive cloning, and pre-implantation genetic diagnosis. The contributing authors illustrate the ways in which national political landscapes and actors from diverse and often fragmented moral communities with widely varying moral stances, premises and commitments formulate their bio-ethical positions and seek to influence political decisions.
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About the Author
Mirjam Weiberg-Salzmann is a senior research fellow at the Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics" of the University of Münster, Germany. She received her Ph.D. in Political Sciences in 2009. Her research areas are international politics, comparative government and peace and conflict studies. She focuses on the topics religion and politics, violence and conflicts in multi-ethnic and multi-religious states, democracy, democratization and biopolitics. Her regional interests are the USA, Great Britain, Germany, Ireland, Norway and South Asia. She wrote books on the deconstruction of democracy by culture (Nomos 2011) and violent conflicts of democratic states in the Third World (University of Rostock 2008). Her most recent publications are Illiberal Politics and Religion: Actors, Ideologies, and Identity Narrrativews in Europe and Beyond (with Anja Hennig; Campus), "The Radicalisation of Buddhism in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries" (Politics, Religion& Ideology) and "Ending Ethnic Civil Wars by Negotiations or by Military Defeat?" (Journal of Asian and African Studies).
Ulrich Willems is a professor of Political Theory and currently director of the Institute of Political Science of the University of Münster, Germany. He is also principal investigator at the Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics in Pre-modern and Modern Times". From 2012 to 2016, he was the director of the "Centre for Religion and Modernity" and a member of the "Centre for Advanced Studies in Bioethics" (2010-2017); both located at the University of Münster. Previously, Willems taught at the Darmstadt University of Technology and the University of Hamburg, Germany. His research interests include political theory, political pluralism, democracy and pluralism, interest groups, politics and religion, and morality policy, especially biopolitics. His recent books include The Political Theory of Modus Vivendi (with John Horton and Manon Westphal; Springer 2019) and Wertkonflikte als Herausforderung der Demokratie (Springer VS 2016).
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