Oxford Handbook of Religion and Science

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-0-19-954365-6
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 1040 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 1752 g

The field of 'religion and science' is exploding in popularity among academics as well as the general reading public. Spawning an increasing number of conferences and courses, this field has shown an unprecedented rate of growth in recent years. Here for the first time is a single-volume introduction to the debate, written by the leading experts. Making no pretence to encyclopaedic neutrality, each chapter defends a major intellectual position - at the heart of the book is a series of 'pro' and 'con' papers, covering each of the current 'hot topics' (such as evolution versus creation, naturalism versus the supernatural). In addition to treatments of questions of methodology and implications for life and practice, the Handbook includes sections devoted to the major scientific disciplines, the major world religions, and the main sub-disciplines in this exciting and ever-expanding field of study.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Simpson, ZacharyZ.S

Clayton, Philip

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Philip Clayton: Introduction

- I.Religion and Science across the World's Traditions

- 2: Sangeetha Menon: Hinduism and Science

- 3: B. Alan Wallace: Buddhism and Science

- 4: Norbert M. Samuelson: Judaism and Science

- 5: John Polkinghorne: Christianity and Science

- 6: Seyyed Hossein Nasr: Islam and Science

- 7: John Grim: Indigenous Lifeways and Knowing the World

- 8: Willem Drees: Religious Naturalism and Science

- 9: Peter Atkins: Atheism and Science

- II. Conceiving Religion in Light of the Contemporary Sciences

- 10: Bernard Carr: Cosmology and Religion

- 11: Kirk Wegter-McNelly: Fundamental Physics and Religion

- 12: Martinez Hewlett: Molecular Biology and Religion

- 13: Jeffrey P. Schloss: Evolutionary Theory and Religion

- 14: Susan Bratton: Ecology and Religion

- 15: Evan Thompson: The Neurosciences and Religion

- 16: Raymond F. Paloutzian: Psychology, the Human Sciences, and Religion

- 17: Richard Fenn: Sociology and Religion

- 18: Michael Lambek: Anthropology and Religion

- III. The Major Fields of Religion/Science

- 19: John Hedley Brooke: Contributions from the History of Science and Religion

- 20: Robert A. Segal: Contributions from Religious Studies

- 21: Robin Collins: Contributions from the Philosophy of Science

- 22: Joseph Bracken: Contributions from Philosophical Theology and Metaphysics

- 23: Wolfhart Pannenberg: Contributions from Systematic Theology

- 24: Ted Peters: Contributions from Practical Theology and Ethics

- 25: Pauline Rudd: Simplicity - Complexity - Simplicity: The Perspectives of Spirituality

- IV. Methodological Approaches to the Study of Religion and Science

- 26: Scott Atran: The Scientific Landscape of Religion: Evolution, Culture, and Cognition

- 27: Owen Flanagan: Varieties of Naturalism

- 28: David Ray Griffin: Interpreting Science from the Standpoint of Whitheadian Process Philosophy

- 29: Nancey Murphy: Anglo-American Postmodernity and the End of Theology-Science Dialogue?

- 30: F. LeRon Shults: Trinitarian Faith Seeking Transformative Understanding

- 31: Phillip H. Wiebe: Religious Experience, Cognitive Science, and the Future of Religion

- 32: Ken Wilber and Sean Esbjorn-Hargens: Toward a Comprehensive Integration of Science and Religion: A Post-Metaphysical Approach

- V. Central Theoretical Debates in Religion and Science

- `Science and Religion' or `Theology and Science'?

- 33: Michael Welker: Science and Theology: Their Relation at the Beginning of the Third Millennium

- 34: Philip Hefner: Religion-and-Science

- Science, Theology, and Divine Action

- 35: Robert John Russell: Quantum Physics and the Theology of Non-Interventionist Objective Divine Action

- 36: Tom Tracy: Theologies of Divine Action

- 37: Wesley J. Wildman: Ground-of-Being Theologies

- Panentheism and its Critics

- 38: Michael Brierley: The Potential of Panentheism for Dialogue between Science and Religion

- 39: Owen C. Thomas: Problems in Panentheism

- Evolution, Creation, and Belief in God

- 40: Will B. Provine: Evolution, Religion, and Science

- 41: Alister E. McGrath: Darwinism

- 42: John F. Haught: God and Evolution

- Intelligent Design and its Critics

- 43: William Dembski: In Defence of Intelligent Design

- 44: Robert T. Pennock: The Premodern Sins of Intelligent Design

- Theologies of Emergent Complexity and their Critics

- 45: George F. R. Ellis: Physics, Complexity, and the Science-Religion Debate

- 46: Niels Henrik Gregersen: Emergence and Complexity

- 47: Michael Silberstein: Emergence, Theology, and the Manifest Image

- 48: Carl Gillett: The Hidden Battles over Emergence

- Feminist Approaches

- 49: Lisa L. Stenmark: Going Public: Feminist Epistemologies, Hannah Arendt, and the Science and Religion Discourse

- 50: Ann Pedersen: Feminist Perspectives in Medicine and Bioethics

- Human Nature and Ethics

- 51: Ursula Goodenough and Terrence W. Deacon: Emergence, Ethics, and Religious Naturalism

- 52: William B. Hurlbut: Science, Ethics, and the Human Spirit

- VI. Values Issues in Religion and Science

- 53: Celia Deane-Drummond: Theology and Ecology

- 54: Holmes Rolston III: Environmental Ethics and Religion/Science

- 55: Ron Cole-Turner: Biotechnology and the Religion-Science Discussion

- 56: Nancy R. Howell: Relations between Homo sapiens and Other Animals: Scientific and Religious Arguments

- 57: Mary Midgley: Dover Beach Revisited: Concluding Reflections