Living in the age of humans

Welcome to the Anthropocene, the epoch in which humankind emerged as a geological superpower that shapes the future of life on Earth. This Age of Humans gives a new urgency to age-old questions. Who are we? What is a human being? What is our place in the cosmos? What is our responsibility for the Earth’s ecosystem? What stories do we have to tell about ourselves now that we have arrived in the Anthropocene? This book takes you on an exciting quest to find out what it means to be human in a world formed by science and technology. It offers food for thought, shows how questions of religion and philosophy of life crop up in unexpected ways in today’s society and challenges you to develop your own spirituality in conversation with religion, science and technology. 

Frederiek Depoortere is a lecturer, study career counsellor and coordinator of the ombuds service at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies of KU Leuven. His main task consists of providing the course unit Perspectives on Religion and Meaning on various campuses of KU Leuven, mainly to science and engineering technology students. He was trained as a theologian and has a great interest in how science and technology raise religious and spiritual questions.