Reproductive technology: a critical analysis of theological responses in christianity and Islam

Reproductive medical technology has revolutionized the natural order of human procreation. Accordingly, some have celebrated its advent as a new and liberating determinant of kinship at the global level and advocate it as a right to reproductive health while others have frowned upon it as a vehic...

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Main Authors:	Ishak, Mohd. Shuhaimi, Haneef, Sayed Sikandar Shah
Format:	Article
Language:	English English English
Published:	Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2014
Subjects:	BP Islam. Bahaism. Theosophy, etc BR Christianity BT Doctrinal Theology
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spelling	iium-375342017-09-27T03:16:16Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/37534/ Reproductive technology: a critical analysis of theological responses in christianity and Islam Ishak, Mohd. Shuhaimi Haneef, Sayed Sikandar Shah BP Islam. Bahaism. Theosophy, etc BR Christianity BT Doctrinal Theology Reproductive medical technology has revolutionized the natural order of human procreation. Accordingly, some have celebrated its advent as a new and liberating determinant of kinship at the global level and advocate it as a right to reproductive health while others have frowned upon it as a vehicle for “guiltless exchange of sexual fluid” and commodification of human gametes. Religious voices from both Christianity and Islam range from unthinking adoption to restrictive use. While utilizing this technology to enable the married couple to have children through the use of their own sexual material is welcome, the use of third party, surrogacy, and reproductive cloning are not in keeping with the sacrosanct principles of kinship, procreation through licit sexual intercourse, and social cohesiveness for building a cohesive family as uphold by both Christianity and Islam. To examine such larger issues emanating from these new ways of human procreation, beyond the question of legality, is a point which legal scholars in both Christianity and Islam, when issuing religious decrees, have not anticipated sufficiently. The article proposes to be an attempt to that end through a qualitative critical content analysis of selected literature written on the subject. Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2014-06-01 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/37534/1/37534_Reproductive%20technology.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/37534/2/37534_Reproductive%20technology_SCOPUS.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/37534/3/37534_Reproductive%20technology_WOS.pdf Ishak, Mohd. Shuhaimi and Haneef, Sayed Sikandar Shah (2014) Reproductive technology: a critical analysis of theological responses in christianity and Islam. Zygon- Journal of Religion & Science, 49 (2). pp. 396-413. ISSN 0591-2385 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/zygo.12097/abstract 10.1111/zygo.12097
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spellingShingle	BP Islam. Bahaism. Theosophy, etc BR Christianity BT Doctrinal Theology Ishak, Mohd. Shuhaimi Haneef, Sayed Sikandar Shah Reproductive technology: a critical analysis of theological responses in christianity and Islam
description	Reproductive medical technology has revolutionized the natural order of human procreation. Accordingly, some have celebrated its advent as a new and liberating determinant of kinship at the global level and advocate it as a right to reproductive health while others have frowned upon it as a vehicle for “guiltless exchange of sexual fluid” and commodification of human gametes. Religious voices from both Christianity and Islam range from unthinking adoption to restrictive use. While utilizing this technology to enable the married couple to have children through the use of their own sexual material is welcome, the use of third party, surrogacy, and reproductive cloning are not in keeping with the sacrosanct principles of kinship, procreation through licit sexual intercourse, and social cohesiveness for building a cohesive family as uphold by both Christianity and Islam. To examine such larger issues emanating from these new ways of human procreation, beyond the question of legality, is a point which legal scholars in both Christianity and Islam, when issuing religious decrees, have not anticipated sufficiently. The article proposes to be an attempt to that end through a qualitative critical content analysis of selected literature written on the subject.
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author	Ishak, Mohd. Shuhaimi Haneef, Sayed Sikandar Shah
author_facet	Ishak, Mohd. Shuhaimi Haneef, Sayed Sikandar Shah
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title	Reproductive technology: a critical analysis of theological responses in christianity and Islam
title_short	Reproductive technology: a critical analysis of theological responses in christianity and Islam
title_full	Reproductive technology: a critical analysis of theological responses in christianity and Islam
title_fullStr	Reproductive technology: a critical analysis of theological responses in christianity and Islam
title_full_unstemmed	Reproductive technology: a critical analysis of theological responses in christianity and Islam
title_sort	reproductive technology: a critical analysis of theological responses in christianity and islam
publisher	Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
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