THE RELIGION OF TRANSHUMANISM: A NEW BELIEF FOR HUMANITY?

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. On the other hand, 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. To observe this phenomenon, some of their current proposals and their general position regarding religious phenomenon are investigated, as well as the opinion of contemporary religion (mainly Western Christianity) 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. The article concludes with an attempt to provide alternative considerations regarding the relationship between religion and technological development.