The Routledge Companion to Religion and Science [Paperback]

The field of religion and science is one of the most exciting and dynamic areas of research today. This Companion brings together an outstanding team of scholars to explore the ways in which science intersects with the major religions of the world and religious naturalism. The collection provides an overview of the field and also indicates ways in which it is developing. Its multicultural breadth and scientific rigor on topics that are and will be compelling issues in the first part of the twenty-first century and beyond will be welcomed by students and scholars alike.

Introduction  

PART I: Epistemology and History A. Frameworks and Methods 1. Religion and Science in Christian Theology (F. LERON SHULTS)  2. Empiricism, Conceptual Cleavers and the Discourse on Religion and Science (FRANCISCA CHO)  3. Science and Religion: From the Historians Perspective (GEOFFREY CANTOR)  4. The Physics of Spirit: The Indigenous Continuity of Science and Religion (BRIAN YAZZIE BURKHART)  B. Historical Overviews  5. Islam and Science (AHMED RAGAB)  6. Christianity and Science (GARY FERNGREN)  7. Feminism, Religion and Science (J. Jeanine Thweatt-Bates)  8. Jews and the Study of Nature (NOAH EFRON)

PART II: Scientific and Religious Models of the World  A. Cosmologies and Cosmogonies  9. Cosmology (JOEL PRIMACK AND NANCY ABRAMS)  10. Astronomy: From Star Gazing to Astrobiology (GRACE WOLF-CHASE)  11. Hindu Cosmogony/Cosmology (GERALD JAMES LARSON)  12. Modern Cosmology and Religious Naturalism (DONALD M. BRAXTON)  13. Cosmology and Theology (ANTJE JACKELEN)  B. Quantum Theoretical Approaches and Causality  14. Quantum Theoreticlãq