| Contents |
Religion and science in Christian theology / F. LeRon Shults -- Empiricism, conceptual cleavers, and the discourse on religion and science / Francisca Cho -- Science and religion : from the historian's perspective / Geoffrey Cantor -- The physics of the spirit : the indigenous continuity of science and religion / Brian Yazzie Burkhart -- Islam and science / Ahmed Ragab -- Christianity and science / Gary B. Ferngren -- Feminism, religion, and science / J. Jeanine Thweatt-Bates -- Jews and the study of nature / Noah Efron -- Cosmology / Joel R. Primack, Nancy Ellen Abrams -- Astronomy : from star gazing to astrobiology / Grace Wolf-Chase -- Hindu cosmogony/cosmology / Gerald James Larson -- Modern cosmology and religious naturalism / Donald M. Braxton -- Cosmology and theology / Antje Jackelén -- Quantum theoretical approaches and causality / Gregg Jaeger -- Quantum mechanics and some Hindu perspectives / Varadaraja V. Raman -- Quantum theory, philosophy and theology : is there a distinct Roman Catholic perspective? / William R. Stoeger -- Quantum theory, causality, and Islamic thought / Mehdi Golshani -- Eliminativism, complexity and emergence / Terrence Deacon, Tyrone Cashman -- Philosophical implications of emergence / Timothy O'Connor -- Emergence and Christian theology / James W. Haag -- Buddhism, emergence, and anti-substantialism / Charles Goodman -- The biological antecedents of human suffering / Ursula Goodenough -- Suffering through to something higher / Holmes Rolston III -- Magic, monotheism and natural evil : classical and modern Jewish responses to suffering / Lawrence Troster -- The problem of suffering in theistic evolution / Ted Peters -- The cognitive sciences : a brief introduction for science and religion / Michael L. Spezio -- Cognitive science and classical Buddhist philosophy of mind / Richard K. Payne -- Christianity and the cognitive sciences / Charlene P.E. Burns -- Hinduism and the cognitive sciences : challenges, contrasts, and confluences / Stephen Kaplan -- Frontiers in religion and ecology : notes on the new ecology and the creation of value / Nathaniel F. Barrett, William R. Jordan III -- Judaism and the science of ecology / Hava Tirosh-Samuelson -- Asian religions and ecology and the integrity of nature / Christopher Key Chapple -- Meaning-making practices and environmental history : toward an ecotonal theology / Whitney A. Bauman -- Origins / Michael Ruse -- Creation and liberation : the ontology of American Indian origins / Scott L. Pratt -- Origins : the Hindu case / C. Mackenzie-Brown -- Christian responses to evolution / Chris Doran -- Jewish origins : cosmos, humanity and Judaism / Shai Cherry -- Biotechnology and justice / Ronald Cole-Turner -- Justice and biotechnology : Protestant views / Karen Lebacqz -- Muslim ethics and biotechnology / Ebrahim Moosa -- Biotechnology and justice : Roman Catholic perspectives / B. Andrew Lustig -- Justice in the margins of the land : Jewish responses to the challenges of biotechnology / Laurie Zoloth -- Ecce Pan : primate theory of mind and the notion of awe / David Harnden-Warwick, Jesse M. Berng -- Animals as religious and soteriological beings : a Hindu perspective / Ellison Banks Findly -- Animals and Christianity / Gregory R. Peterson -- Does the Buddha have a theory of mind? : animal cognition and human distinctiveness in Buddhism / Jonathan C. Gold -- Prospects for the biomedical postponement of aging : technical context for a theological debate / Aubrey D.N.J. de Grey -- Response to Aubrey de Grey from the perspective of Buddhism / Derek F. Maher -- Cosmic aliveness : nurturing life in the Daoist tradition / Livia Kohn -- A Christian theological response to de Grey's prospects for the biomedical postponement of aging : or, What does it mean to live long and prosper? / Ann Milliken Pederson -- Transhumanism and cognitive enhancement / Daniel S. Rizzuto, Joshua W. Fost -- Cyborgs, robots, and eternal avatars : transhumanist salvation at the interface of brains and machines / Robert M. Geraci -- Human-directed evolution : a Christian perspective / Noreen Herzfeld -- American Indians, transhumanism and cognitive enhancement / Thurman Lee Hester Jr. |
