ABSTRACT

Mormon religiosity is deeply marked both by a culture of secrecy and also by a culture that obliquely indexes secret religious material as a means of communication. This secrecy, though, can at times be an engine of disbelief, a process which has been exacerbated by the internet. Because of high levels of social integration in the community, Mormon disbelief can have high social costs. Some Mormons, however, have retained a ‘testimony’ by using the concept of transhumanism as a way to re-negotiate what ‘belief’ in Mormonism means. However, in part due to the very culture of secrecy that can fuel doubt, and also in part due to the technical codes that transhumanism as a community often relies on, this very shift can itself be difficult for Mormon non-transhumanists to discern.

摘要

摩门教的宗教信仰深受保密文化和将秘密宗教材料作为一种交流方式的文化的深刻影响。然而，这种保密有时会成为令人难以置信的引擎，互联网加剧了这一过程。由于社区中高度的社会融合，摩门教的怀疑可能会带来高昂的社会成本。然而，一些摩门教徒通过使用超人类主义的概念作为重新谈判摩门教“信仰”意味着什么的方式，保留了“证词”。然而，部分原因在于可能引发怀疑的保密文化，部分原因是超人类主义作为一个社区经常依赖的技术代码，这种转变本身对于摩门教非超人类主义者来说可能难以辨别。