Global Perspectives on Science and Religion.

Gathering thinkers from ten countries and from a variety of scientific and spiritual backgrounds, Global Perspectives on Science and Spirituality leads readers on a fascinating tour of distinctly non-Western approaches to topics in these two fields. These voices add fresh and invigorating input to a...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Das, Pranab
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: West Conshohocken : Templeton Foundation Press, 2011.
Subjects:
Online Access: Full text (Emmanuel users only)
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Pranab Das
  • The puzzle of consciousness and experiential primacy : agency in cognitive sciences and spiritual experiences / Sangeetha Menon
  • Religion, science, and lebenswelt : new interdisciplinary crossroads / Ilya Kasavin
  • Science and spirituality in modern India / Makarand Paranjape
  • Kokoro [mind-heart-spirit] : affirming science and religion in the Japanese context / Paul Swanson
  • Daoism and the uncertainty principle / Jiang Sheng
  • Whitehead reconsidered from a Buddhist perspective / Ryusei Takeda
  • Sanctity of life : a reflection on human embryonic stem cell debates from an east Asian perspective / Heup Young Kim
  • Aut Moses, aut Darwin? / A. Markos [and others]
  • Human origins : continuous evolution versus punctual creation / Grzegorz Bugajak and Jacek Tomczyk
  • Mathematics as a formal ontology : the hermeneutical dimensions of natural sciences and eastern patristics / Alexei Chernyakov
  • Is mathematics able to open the systems of the human intellect? / Botond Gaál
  • On the role of transcendence in science and religion / Ladislav Kvasz.