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$aPART I. EPISTEMOLOGY AND HISTORY. (i) FRAMEWORKS AND METHODS. 1. Religion and science in Christian theology / F. LeRon Shults ; 2. Empiricism, conceptual cleavers, and the discourse on religion and science / Francisca Cho ; 3. Science and religion: from the historian's perspective / Geoffrey Cantor ; 4. The physics of spirit: the indigenous continuity of science and religion / Brian Yazzie Burkhart -- (ii) HISTORICAL OVERVIEWS. 5. Islam and science / Ahmed Ragab ; 6. Christianity and science / Gary B. Ferngren ; 7. Feminism, religion, and science / J. Jeanine Thweatt-Bates ; 8. Jews and the study of nature / Noah Efron -- PART II. SCIENTIFIC AND RELIGIOUS MODELS OF THE WORLD. (i) COSMOLOGIES AND COSMOGONIES. 9. Cosmology / Joel R. Primack, Nancy Ellen Abrams ; 10. Astronomy: from star gazing to astrobiology / Grace Wolf-Chase ; 11. Hindu cosmogony/cosmology / Gerald James Larson ; 12. Modern cosmology and religious naturalism / Donald M. Braxton ; 13. Cosmology and theology / Antje Jackeln -- (ii) QUANTUM THEORETICAL APPROACHES AND CAUSALITY. 14. Quantum theoretical approaches and causality / Gregg Jaeger ; 15. Quantum mechanics and some Hindu perspectives / Varadaraja V. Raman ; 16. Quantum theory, philosophy and theology: is there a distinct Roman Catholic perspective? / William R. Stoeger ; 17. Quantum theory, causality, and Islamic thought / Mehdi Golshani -- (iii) COMPLEXITY, EMERGENCE, AND ELIMINATIVISM. 18. Eliminativism, complexity and emergence / Terrence Deacon, Tyrone Cashman ; 19. Philosophical implications of emergence / Timothy O'Connor ; 20. Emergence and Christian theology / James W. Haag 21. Buddhism, emergence, and anti-substantialism / Charles Goodman -- (iv) EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY AND SUFFERING. 22. The biological antecedents of human suffering / Ursula Goodenough ; 23. Suffering through to something higher / Holmes Rolston III ; 24. Magic, monotheism and natural evil: classical and modern Jewish responses to suffering / Lawrence Troster ; 25. The problem of suffering in theistic evolution / Ted Peters -- (v) THE COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE. 26. The cognitive sciences: a brief introduction for science and religion / Michael L. Spezio ; 27. Cognitive science and classical Buddhist philosophy of mind / Richard K. Payne ; 28. Christianity and the cognitive sciences / Charlene P.E. Burns ; 29. Hinduism and the cognitive sciences: challenges, contrasts, and confluences / Stephen Kaplan -- (vi) ECOLOGY AND THE INTEGRITY OF NATURE. 30. Frontiers in religion and ecology: notes on the new ecology and the creation of value / Nathaniel F. Barrett, William R. Jordan III ; 31. Judaism and the science of ecology / Hava Tirosh-Samuelson ; 32. Asian religions, ecology, and the integrity of nature / Christopher Key Chapple ; 33. Meaning-making practices and environmental history: toward an ecotonal theology / Whitney A. Bauman -- PART III. RELIGION AND SCIENCE, VALUES, AND PUBLIC POLICY. (i) ORIGINS. 34. Origins / Michael Ruse ; 35. Creation and liberation: the ontology of American Indian origins / Scott L. Pratt ; 36. Origins: the Hindu case / C. Mackenzie-Brown ; 37. Christian responses to evolution / Chris Doran ; 38. Jewish origins: cosmos, humanity and Judaism / Shai Cherry -- (ii) BIOTECHNOLOGY AND JUSTICE. 39. Biotechnology and justice / Ronald Cole-Turner ; 40. Justice and biotechnology: Protestant views / Karen Lebacqz ; 41. Muslim ethics and biotechnology / Ebrahim Moosa ; 42. Biotechnology and justice: Roman Catholic perspectives / B. Andrew Lustig ; 43. Justice in the margins of the land: Jewish responses to the challenges of biotechnology / Laurie Zoloth -- (iii) NON-HUMAN COGNITION: ANIMAL COGNITION AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. 44. Ecce Pan: primate theory of mind and the notion of awe / David Harnden-Warwick, Jesse M. Bering ; 45. Animals as religious and soteriological beings: a Hindu perspective / Ellison Banks Findly ; 46. Animals and Christianity / Gregory R. Peterson ; 47. Does the Buddha have a theory of mind?: animal cognition and human distinctiveness in Buddhism / Jonathan C. Gold -- (iv) AGING AND LIFE EXTENSION. 48. Prospects for the biomedical postponement of aging: technical context for a theological debate / Aubrey D.N.J. de Grey ; 49. Response to Aubrey de Grey from the perspective of Buddhism / Derek F. Maher ; 50. Cosmic aliveness: nurturing life in the Daoist tradition / Livia Kohn ; 51. A Christian theological response to Aubrey de Grey's prospects for the biomedical postponement of aging: or, What does it mean to live long and prosper? / Ann Milliken Pederson -- (v) TRANSHUMANISM AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. 52. Transhumanism and cognitive enhancement / Daniel S. Rizzuto, Joshua W. Fost ; 53. Cyborgs, robots, and eternal avatars: transhumanist salvation at the interface of brains and machines / Robert M. Geraci ; 54. Human-directed evolution: a Christian perspective / Noreen Herzfeld ;55. American Indians, transhumanism and cognitive enhancement / Thurman Lee Hester Jr. |