PANEL: Whose Future? Religious and Technoscientific Imaginaries in Contest Call for Submissions open until 25 April, 2026 Notification of Acceptance no later than May 15, 2026 4S 2026 Conference: October 7-10, 2026   Visions of the future are never neutral. They encode assumptions about what is desirable, who is authorized to imagine, and which forms of knowledge are deemed capable of producing credible futures. This panel examines the competing, and sometimes converging, imaginaries through which religious, spiritual, secular, and technoscientific traditions project possible and preferable futures, and asks how power operates through these acts of future-making. The 4S 2026 conference theme, “TechnoPower,” highlights how technoscientific capitalism concentrates power to define the future among a narrow set of actors and institutions. Yet it remains to be determined how technoscientific