Introduction
1. Early Judaism
Noah Efron
2. Modern Judaism
Geoffrey Cantor
3. Early Christianity
Peter Harrison and David C. Lindberg
4. Modern Christianity
John Hedley Brooke
5. Early Islam
Ahmad S. Dallal
6. Modern Islam
Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu
7. Early Chinese Religions
Mark Csikszentmihalti
8. Indic Religions
B. V. Subbarayappa
9. Buddhism
Donald S. Lopez, Jr.
10. African Religions
Steven Feierman and John M. Janzen
11. Unbelief
Bernard Lightman
12. Which Science? Whose Religion?
David N. Livingstone
A Guide to Further Reading
John Hedley Brooke held the Andreas Idreos Chair of Science and
Religion and Directorship of the Ian Ramsey Centre at Oxford
University from 1999 to 2006. He is currently President of the
International Society for Science and Religion.
Ronald L. Numbers is Hilldale Professor of the History of Science
and Medicine and of Religious Studies and a member of the
department of medical history and bioethics at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison, where he has taught for over three and a half
decades. He is Past President of the International Union of History
and Philosophy of Science.
"Dealing with a diverse array of cultures, Science and Religion
around the World offers the best one-volume introduction into how
different peoples merge their understanding of nature and the
supernatural. Without offering an apology for any particular
viewpoint, the book's fourteen authors -- all experts in their
fields -- show that science and religion can conflict, compliment,
or simply co-exist. It all depends on what science, which religion
and
whose culture."
---Edward J. Larson, the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of Summer
for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over
Science and Religion
"The authors of Science and Religion around the World view the many
religions in a sympathetic light. They show very convincingly that
each religious tradition includes facets that are open to science,
lead to good science, and/or involve the real practice of a
scientific discipline as an essential part of the
religion."--Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith
"It's essays are thorough, balanced, and masterfully scholarly."
--Journal of the American Academy of Religion
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