Science, religion, and the human experience /

This collection of essays looks at the relationship between science and religion. The book begins from the premise that both science and religion operate in, yet seek to reach beyond, specific historical, political, ideological, and psychological contexts.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Proctor, James D., 1957-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • "Thou shall not freeze-frame", or, how not to misunderstand the science and religion debate / Bruno Latour
  • Modernity and the mystical / Thomas A. Carlson
  • The depths and shallows of experience / Hilary Putnam
  • In ____ we trust / James D. Proctor
  • Science, religion, metaphor, and history / Jeffrey Burton Russell
  • Kabbalah and contemporary cosmology / Daniel C. Matt
  • The complementarity of science and religion / Harold H. Oliver
  • Darwin, design, and the unification of nature / John Hedley Brooke
  • Darwinism and Christianity / Michael Ruse
  • Experiencing evolution / Ronald L. Numbers
  • Gods and the mental instincts that create them / Pascal Boyer
  • Empathy and human experience / Evan Thompson
  • Uneasy alliances / Anne Harrington
  • The intersubjective worlds of science and religion / B. Alan Wallace.