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

This unique encyclopedia explores the historical and contemporary controversies between science and religion. It is designed to offer multicultural and multi-religious views, and provide wide-ranging perspectives. Science, Religion, and Society covers all aspects of the religion and science dichotom...

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Other Authors: Eisen, Arri, 1963-
Laderman, Gary, 1962-
Language:English
Published: Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, [2007], ©2007.
Subjects:
Religion and science > Encyclopedias.
Religion and science > History > Encyclopedias.
Psychology and religion > Encyclopedias.
Religion > Encyclopedias.
Religions > Encyclopedias.
Reference works.
Genre:
Encyclopedias.
Reference works.
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Connect to: Table of contents - All users (Cataloging @ Library of Congress)
Physical Description:2 volumes (xix, 888 pages) : illustrations ; 26 cm
Format: Electronic Book

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260 |a Armonk, N.Y. :  |b M.E. Sharpe,  |c [2007], ©2007. 
300 |a 2 volumes (xix, 888 pages) :  |b illustrations ;  |c 26 cm 
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505 0 0 |g Volume 1 --  |t Integrating science and religion /  |r John Polkinghorne --  |t Integrating science and religion : a Jewish perspective /  |r Norbert M. Samuelson --  |t Islam and science /  |r Toby E. Huff --  |g The  |t place of science in the Hindu worldview /  |r P. Venugopala Rao --  |t Science and religion in Africa /  |r Gloria Emeagwali --  |t Science and Native American communities /  |r Keith James --  |t Native spirituality and science /  |r Phillip H. Duran --  |t Knowing the world /  |r --  |t Issues in science and religion : a critical evaluation /  |r Lawrence I. Gould --  |t Intersecting frontiers in science and religion /  |r Paul Utukuru --  |g A  |t superior road for life's journey : a scientist explores reality /  |r Jagdish N. Srivastava --  |t Ichi Tante Mind : a Zen Buddhist perspective /  |r Leslie A. Real --  |t Islam and science: notes on an ongoing debate /  |r Ibrahim Kalin --  |t Taoist contributions to science in China /  |r Jiang Sheng --  |t Religious pluralism and science in Asia /  |r Shigeru Nakayama --  |t Diversity of the religious experience /  |r Ralph W. Hood Jr. --  |t Multicultural perspectives on issues in science and religion /  |r Barbara Strassberg --  |t Learning science in a multicultural, multifaith world /  |r Eva Krugly-Smolska --  |t Historical Perspectives --  |t Religion in Ancient Western South America /  |r Charles Stanish --  |t Science in Pre-Hispanic Western South America /  |r Charles Stanish --  |t Science in the classical Hindu world /  |r V.V. Raman --  |t Joseph Needham and Taoism /  |r Shigeru Nakayama --  |t Islam and premodern science /  |r Muzaffar Iqbal --  |t Islam and modern science /  |r Muzaffar Iqbal --  |t Science, philosophy, and religion in Ancient Greece and Rome /  |r Louis A. Ruprecht Jr. --  |t Patristic theology and Greek natural philosophy /  |r Matthew F. Dowd --  |t Religion and science in the middle ages /  |r Edward Grant --  |t Greco-Roman conceptions of the natural world, religion, and leadership in the later Roman empire /  |r Walter Roberts --  |t Knowledge and accuracy in early Greek historical writing /  |r Gordon Shrimpton --  |g The  |t development and diffusion of alchemy from antiquity to the Renaissance /  |r Brenda S. Gardenour --  |t Women's bodies, women's souls : perspectives in the middle ages /  |r Brenda S. Gardenour --  |t Religion and geography in the early middle ages /  |r Natalia Lozovsky --  |g The  |t Western calendar : religion and science intertwined /  |r Matthew F. Dowd --  |t Extraterrestrial life and Christianity /  |r Michael J. Crowe --  |t Creation, the cosmos, and origins of the Universe --  |t Creation and origins of the universe /  |r Marcelo Gleiser --  |t African cosmologies past and present /  |r Hazel Ayanga --  |t Creation myths of Africa /  |r Gloria Emeagwali and Ayele Bekerie --  |g The  |t Biblical view of nature /  |r Stephen D. Snobelen --  |t Galileo, science, and religion /  |r Mariano Artigas --  |t Isaac Newton : his science and religion /  |r Stephen D. Snobelen --  |t God and the big bang /  |r Theodore Schick --  |t Cosmology and the anthropic principle /  |r Victor J. Stenger --  |t Creationism /  |r Jeffrey Koperski --  |t Science and the Bible : two views of one reality /  |r Gerald Schroeder --  |t Is cosmology religiously significant? /  |r Willem B. Drees --  |t Space in ancient Mesoamerica /  |r Rex Koontz. 
505 8 0 |g Volume 2 --  |t Ecology, evolution, and the natural world --  |t Natural theology, deism, and early modern science /  |r Peter Harrison --  |t Process theology /  |r Joseph Bracken --  |t Evolution /  |r Francisco J. Ayala --  |t Evolution and natural selection /  |r Christopher W. Beck --  |t Intelligent design /  |r Michael J. Behe --  |t Evolution and religion /  |r Scott Atran --  |g The  |t environment in an African spirituality /  |r Adam K. arap Chepkwony --  |t Environmental ethics /  |r Celia Deane-Drummond --  |t Science and the sacred /  |r John Ikerd --  |t Science, religion, and sustainable development /  |r Mikael Stenmark --  |t Consciousness, mind, and the brain --  |g The  |t psychology of religion /  |r Christopher Peterson and Nansook Park --  |t Consciousness and neurotheology /  |r Kelly Bulkeley --  |t Neurotheology /  |r Carol Rausch Albright --  |t Neurobiology and consciousness /  |r Imants Barušs --  |g The  |t ethics of psychosurgery and deep brain stimulation /  |r Kenneth R. Livingston --  |g The  |t mind-body problem /  |r J.P. Moreland --  |t Extraordinary aspects of reality in altered states /  |r Imants Barušs --  |t Consciousness, ritual, and belief /  |r Kenneth R. Livingston --  |t Cognitive science of religion /  |r D. Jason Slone --  |t Healers and Healing --  |t Shamanism /  |r Alexander Escobar --  |t Shamanism and science : ancient pathways to healing and understanding /  |r E. Barrie Kavasch --  |t Shamanism : a biogenetic perspective /  |r Michael Tlanusta Garrett --  |t Spiritual healing in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church /  |r Getatchew Haile --  |t African traditional medicine : healing and spirituality /  |r Adam K. arap Chepkwony --  |t AIDS, science, and religion in Africa /  |r Hazel Ayanga --  |t Nuwati : Native American wisdom and healing /  |r Michael Tlanusta Garrett --  |g The  |t role of religion and spirituality in conventional medical treatment /  |r William T. Branch, Jr. --  |t Interdisciplinary approaches to faith healing /  |r Lisa J. Schwebel --  |t Does religion cause health? /  |r Doug Oman and Carl E. Thoresen --  |t Dying and Death --  |g The  |t blurred boundary : when death displaces life /  |r Joanne D.S. McMahon --  |t Judaism and ethical issues in end of life care /  |r Elliot N. Dorff --  |t Hospice /  |r Charles A. Corr --  |t Prolonging living and dying /  |r Kathy Kinlaw --  |t Near death experiences /  |r Bruce J. Horacek --  |t Dissection and autopsy /  |r Toby E. Huff --  |t Genetics and religion --  |t Genetics, society, and spirituality /  |r Gaymon Bennett --  |t Biotechnology and theology /  |r Celia Deane-Drummond --  |t Religion, ethics, and the Human Genome Project /  |r Margaret R. McLean --  |t Human reproductive cloning : assessing the concerns /  |r Timothy Caulfield. 
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