Religion and Biopolitics

Book Overview

Introduction: Challenging the Political - Religious Actors and Religious Arguments in Liberal Democracies (Mirjam Weiberg-Salzmann and Ulrich Willems).- Part I: Catholic-Latin states with low level or little religious pluralism.- Discursive Strategies of Catholic Churches in Assisted Reproduction Technology Regulation: Poland and Spain in Comparison (Anja Hennig).- The Role of Religion in Debates on Embryo Research and Surrogacy in France (Jennifer Merchant).- Embryonic Silences: Human Life Between Biomedicine, Religion, and State Authorities in Austria (Ingrid Metzler and Anna Pichelstorfer).- Religion and Biopolitics in Ireland (Mirjam Weiberg-Salzmann).- Part II: Protestant(-English) states with high or moderate level religious pluralism.- Biotechnology and the Non-religious Uses of God Talk (John H. Evans).- The Political Debate on Embryo Research in New Zealand and the Role of Religious Actors and Arguments (David Gareth Jones).- The Political Debate on Embryo Research in Australia and the Role of Religious Actors and Arguments (Frank O'Keeffe and Kevin McGovern).- Part III: Protestant(-Scandinavian) states with low level religious pluralism.- The Status of the Human Embryo: A Case Study of Embryo Experiments and Embryo Research in Denmark (Jacob Dahl Rendtorff).- Religion and Biopolitics in Sweden (G?ran Hermer?n and Mats Johansson).- Negotiating Embryo Politics in Norway and Italy (Mirjam Weiberg-Salzmann and Massimiliano Passerini).- Part IV: Mixed-confession states with high level religious pluralism.- The Role of Religion in the Political Debate on Embryo Research in the Netherlands (Wybo J. Dondorp and Guido M. W. R. de Wert).- Moralizing Embryo Politics in Germany (Mirjam Weiberg-Salzmann).- Bioethics and Biopolitics in Switzerland: Stem Cell Research and Pre-Implantation Diagnostics in the Public Discourse (Monika Bobbert and Yvonne Zelter).- Morality Policies: How Religion and Politics Interplay in Democratic Decision-making in Belgium (Nathalie Schiffino).-

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030145824
• ISBN13: 9783030145828
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"