Nature and technology in the world religions /

Technology and the control of nature have arisen from the endeavor to reduce the neediness of human life. Since this reduction is also the goal of religions, there is a necessary proximity between religion and technology. The relationship of humans to nature and technology is an object of religious...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Koslowski, Peter, 1952-2012
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [2001]
Series:Discourse of the world religions ; 3.
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Table of Contents:
  • Nature and Technology in the Religions / Peter Koslowski
  • Humankind's Relationship with Nature and Participation in the Process of Creation through Technology in the View of Judaism / Micha Brumlik
  • The World as Creation and Creation as a Cosmotheandric Reality in Christianity / Francis X. D'Sa
  • Humankind's Relationship with Nature and Participation in the Process of Creation by Technology from an Islamic Point of View / Asghar Ali Engineer
  • Discussion of the Relationship to Nature and Technology in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
  • The Process of the Deification of the Human Person and Technology in Eastern-Orthodox Christianity / Sergey Horuzhy
  • Discussion of the Deification of the Human Person and the Role of Technology in Eastern-Orthodox Christianity
  • Naturalism and Humanism in Creation and Construction in Hinduism / D.P. Chattopadhyaya
  • Veneration of Nature, Use of Nature, and Self-Improvement of Humankind by Technology in the Sramana Tradition (Buddhism and Jainism) / Shivram S. Antarkar
  • Discussion of the Relationship to Nature and Technology in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism
  • An Attempt to Synthesise from a Hindu Perspective the Received View of Creation, the Relationship between Humans and Nature, and the Role of Technology / D.P. Chattopadhyaya
  • Concluding Discussion of the Relationship to Nature and the Interpretation of Technology in the World Religions
  • Conversation between the Representatives of the World Religions after the Conclusion of the Public Discourse.