<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>5</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Schummer, Joachim</style></author></authors><tertiary-authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Schummer, Joachim</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Nordmann, Alfred</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Schwartz, Astrid E.</style></author></tertiary-authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Nano-Erlösung oder Nano-Armageddon? Technikethik im christlichen Fundamentalismus</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Nanotechnologein im Kontext </style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2006</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CBIQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.joachimschummer.net%2Fpapers%2F2006_NanoTheology_Nordmann-et-al.pdf&ei=0ZoXTL7ZCIXONePQ1YML&usg=AFQjCNHL2nKnAQjolEoGiKP-Vz-1zKqItQ</style></url></web-urls></urls><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft  </style></publisher><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Berlin</style></pub-location><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">263-276</style></pages><isbn><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">3898380742  </style></isbn><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">German </style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">This paper argues that the extraordinary excitement about nanotechnology, including exaggerated hopes and fears, first emerged in the US, because it is deeply rooted in the specific religious tradition of that country. Virtually absent in Europe, mainstream Christian fundamentalism in the US has always had a particular relationship both to the future and to technologies, due to its apocalyptic orientation. The recent excitement about nanotechnology is only the latest offspring that comes in the bizarre form of apocalyptic ethics, propagated particularly by influential transhumanists. Attempts at copying the American excitement in Europe, at the expense of philosophical engineering ethics, are likely to be less successful because of the different religious and cultural traditions. (Used with editor's permission, copyright Akademishche Verlagsgesellischaft, 2006)  </style></abstract></record></records></xml>