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Title Science, religion, and society : an encyclopedia of history, culture, and controversy / edited by Arri Eisen and Gary Laderman ; foreword by The Dalai Lama.

Imprint Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c2007.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  201.65 Sci27 2007  v.1    ---  Available
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  201.65 Sci27 2007  v.2    ---  Available
Description 2 v. (xix, 888 p.) : ill. ; 26 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Volume 1 -- Integrating science and religion / John Polkinghorne -- Integrating science and religion : a Jewish perspective / Norbert M. Samuelson -- Islam and science / Toby E. Huff -- Place of science in the Hindu worldview / P. Venugopala Rao -- Science and religion in Africa / Gloria Emeagwali -- Science and Native American communities / Keith James -- Native spirituality and science / Phillip H. Duran -- Knowing the world / -- Issues in science and religion : a critical evaluation / Lawrence I. Gould -- Intersecting frontiers in science and religion / Paul Utukuru -- Superior road for life's journey : a scientist explores reality / Jagdish N. Srivastava -- Ichi Tante Mind : a Zen Buddhist perspective / Leslie A. Real -- Islam and science: notes on an ongoing debate / Ibrahim Kalin -- Taoist contributions to science in China / Jiang Sheng -- Religious pluralism and science in Asia / Shigeru Nakayama -- Diversity of the religious experience / Ralph W. Hood Jr. -- Multicultural perspectives on issues in science and religion / Barbara Strassberg -- Learning science in a multicultural, multifaith world / Eva Krugly-Smolska -- Historical Perspectives -- Religion in Ancient Western South America / Charles Stanish -- Science in Pre-Hispanic Western South America / Charles Stanish -- Science in the classical Hindu world / V.V. Raman -- Joseph Needham and Taoism / Shigeru Nakayama -- Islam and premodern science / Muzaffar Iqbal -- Islam and modern science / Muzaffar Iqbal -- Science, philosophy, and religion in Ancient Greece and Rome / Louis A. Ruprecht Jr. -- Patristic theology and Greek natural philosophy / Matthew F. Dowd -- Religion and science in the middle ages / Edward Grant -- Greco-Roman conceptions of the natural world, religion, and leadership in the later Roman empire / Walter Roberts -- Knowledge and accuracy in early Greek historical writing / Gordon Shrimpton -- Development and diffusion of alchemy from antiquity to the Renaissance / Brenda S. Gardenour -- Women's bodies, women's souls : perspectives in the middle ages / Brenda S. Gardenour -- Religion and geography in the early middle ages / Natalia Lozovsky -- The Western calendar : religion and science intertwined / Matthew F. Dowd -- Extraterrestrial life and Christianity / Michael J. Crowe -- Creation, the cosmos, and origins of the Universe -- Creation and origins of the universe / Marcelo Gleiser -- African cosmologies past and present / Hazel Ayanga -- Creation myths of Africa / Gloria Emeagwali and Ayele Bekerie -- The Biblical view of nature / Stephen D. Snobelen -- Galileo, science, and religion / Mariano Artigas -- Isaac Newton : his science and religion / Stephen D. Snobelen -- God and the big bang / Theodore Schick -- Cosmology and the anthropic principle / Victor J. Stenger -- Creationism / Jeffrey Koperski -- Science and the Bible : two views of one reality / Gerald Schroeder -- Is cosmology religiously significant? / Willem B. Drees -- Space in ancient Mesoamerica / Rex Koontz.
Subject Religion and science -- Encyclopedias.
Religion and science -- History -- Encyclopedias.
Added Author Eisen, Arri, 1963-
Laderman, Gary, 1962-
ISBN 0765680645 (set : alk. paper)
9780765680648 (alk. paper)
9780765680648
0765621096
9780765621092
Standard No. YDXCP 2258452
NLGGC 287835588
NZ1 10480122

 
    
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