Science, Religion and Society

An Encyclopedia of History, Culture, and Controversy

Arri Eisen, Gary Laderman

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2015
• eBook ISBN:
  9781317460121
• Topic: Art
• Subtopic: Economic Theory

This unique encyclopedia explores the historical and contemporary controversies between science and religion. It is designed to offer multicultural and multi-religious views, and provide wide-ranging perspectives. "Science, Religion, and Society" covers all aspects of the religion and science dichotomy, from humanities to social sciences to natural sciences, and includes articles by theologians, religion scholars, physicians, scientists, historians, and psychologists, among others. The first section, General Overviews, contains essays that provide a road map for exploring the major challenges and questions in science and religion. Following this, the Historical Perspectives section grounds these major questions in the past, and demonstrates how they have developed into the six broad areas of contemporary research and discussion that follow. These sections - Creation, the Cosmos, and Origins of the Universe; Ecology, Evolution, and the Natural World; Consciousness, Mind, and the Brain; Healers and Healing; Dying and Death; and Genetics and Religion - organize the questions and research that are the foundation of the enormous interest, and controversy, in science and religion today.

Index

A

“A Free Man’s Worship” (Russell), 1:114

Æäbäl, 2:639

Aboriginal knowledge. See Indigenous knowledge

Absurd, 1:376–377

Action representation system, 2:597

Actions, intentional, 2:569

Actual entity, 2:434–436, 439–440

Actual occasion. See Actual entity

Adam

in Ethiopian creation myths, 1:334, 335

in Judeo-Christian creation myths, 1:346

in young earth creationism, 1:393

See also Eve

Adrshta (Hindu), 1:186

Advance directives, 2:734–735

Jewish law on, 2:714

Advanced care planning, 2:734–735

Adventures of Ideas (Whitehead), 2:435

Africa

HIV/AIDS, 2:649–651

metallurgy and mathematics, 1:45–46

Northeast, 1:43–44, 46–47

toxic dumping in, 2:485

West, 1:44–45

See also African cosmology; African creation myths; African spirituality; African traditional medicine; Congo; Egypt, ancient; Ethiopia; Kenya; Uganda; Zimbabwe

African cosmology, 1:326

death, 1:328–330

God(s) as creator, 1:326–327

humanity, 1:328, 331

modern, 1:330–331

the universe, 1:327

African creation myths

categories of, 1:332

Christianity and, 1:335–336

format of, 1:334

humanity, 1:332–334

the universe, 1:332–334

African spirituality

animal totems, 2:487–488

community and, 2:489–490

environmentalism and, 2:484, 486, 487

flora and, 2:488–489

supreme being, 2...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• General Overviews
• Historical Perspectives
• Creation, the Cosmos, and Origins of the Universe
• Ecology, Evolution, and the Natural World
• Consciousness, Mind, and the Brain
• Healers and Healing
• Dying and Death
• Genetics and Religion
• Bibliography
• About the Authors
• Index