More than transcendence: techno-salvationism and the reconfiguration of religious authority in Japanese and Chinese Buddhist contexts
Techno-salvationism is commonly understood as a cultural imaginary in which advanced technologies promise transcendence, immortality, or liberation from human limitations. Existing scholarship has largely examined this phenomenon through Western theological and posthumanist perspectives, leaving its localized forms underexplored. This study investigates how techno-salvationist imaginaries are reco