Routledge Science and Religion Series
About the Book Series
Science and religion have often been thought to be at loggerheads but much contemporary work in this flourishing interdisciplinary field suggests this is far from the case. The Science and Religion Series presents exciting new work to advance interdisciplinary study, research and debate across key themes in science and religion. Contemporary issues in philosophy and theology are debated, as are prevailing cultural assumptions. The series enables leading international authors from a range of different disciplinary perspectives to apply the insights of the various sciences, theology, philosophy and history in order to look at the relations between the different disciplines and the connections that can be made between them. These accessible, stimulating new contributions to key topics across science and religion will appeal particularly to individual academics and researchers, graduates, postgraduates and upper-undergraduate students.
Julian of Norwich and the Ecological Crisis: Restoring Porosity
1st Edition
By Claire Gilbert
July 01, 2024
This book presents ecological insights drawn from a reading of Julian of Norwich, considering how effectively she can help us in our current plight. The argument is that to address the ecological crisis with the mindset that created it will only cause more problems, and that to really undo the harm...
Science and Religion in Western Literature: Critical and Theological Studies
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By Michael Fuller
May 27, 2024
This book explores ways in which Western literature has engaged with themes found within the field of science and religion, both historically and in the present day. It focuses on works of the imagination as important locations at which human arguments, hopes and fears may be played out. The ...
Emerging Voices in Science and Theology: Contributions by Young Women
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By Bethany Sollereder, Alister McGrath
January 29, 2024
This volume engages with the relative absence and underrepresentation of female voices in the field of science and religion, which tends to be dominated by male academics who are in the later stages of their careers. It makes a valuable contribution to correcting this imbalance by showcasing the ...
New Directions in Theology and Science: Beyond Dialogue
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By Peter Harrison, Paul Tyson
September 25, 2023
This book sets out a new agenda for science-theology interactions and offers examples of what that agenda might look like when implemented. It explores, in innovative ways, what follows for science-theology discussions from recent developments in the history of science. The contributions take ...
Science and Religion in India: Beyond Disenchantment
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By Renny Thomas
September 25, 2023
This book provides an in-depth ethnographic study of science and religion in the context of South Asia, giving voice to Indian scientists and shedding valuable light on their engagement with religion. Drawing on biographical, autobiographical, historical, and ethnographic material, the volume ...
Providence and Science in a World of Contingency: Thomas Aquinas’ Metaphysics of Divine Action
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By Ignacio Silva
May 31, 2023
Providence and Science in a World of Contingency offers a novel assessment of the contemporary debate over divine providential action and the natural sciences, suggesting a re-consideration of Thomas Aquinas’ metaphysical doctrine of providence coupled with his account of natural contingency. By ...
The Multiverse and Participatory Metaphysics: A Theological Exploration
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By Jamie Boulding
May 31, 2023
This book offers a new theological approach to the multiverse hypothesis. With a distinctive methodology, it shows that participatory metaphysics from ancient and medieval sources represents a fertile theological ground on which to grapple with contemporary ideas of the multiverse. There are three...
Islam and Evolution: Al-Ghazālī and the Modern Evolutionary Paradigm
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By Shoaib Ahmed Malik
January 09, 2023
This book attempts to equip the reader with a holistic and accessible account of Islam and evolution. It guides the reader through the different variables that have played a part in the ongoing dialogue between Muslim creationists and evolutionists. This work views the discussion through the lens...
Divine and Human Providence: Philosophical, Psychological and Theological Approaches
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By Ignacio Silva, Simon Kopf
May 30, 2022
This volume offers an original perspective on divine providence by examining philosophical, psychological, and theological perspectives on human providence as exhibited in virtuous human behaviours. Divine providence is one of the most pressing issues in analytic theology and philosophy of religion...
Intersections of Religion and Astronomy
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By Chris Corbally, Darry Dinell, Aaron Ricker
May 30, 2022
This volume examines the way in which cultural ideas about "the heavens" shape religious ideas and are shaped by them in return. Our approaches to cosmology have a profound effect on the way in which we each deal with religious questions and participate in the imaginative work of public and private...
Ramified Natural Theology in Science and Religion: Moving Forward from Natural Theology
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By Rodney Holder
May 06, 2022
This book offers a rationale for a new ‘ramified natural theology’ that is in dialogue with both science and historical-critical study of the Bible. Traditionally, knowledge of God has been seen to come from two sources, nature and revelation. However, a rigid separation between these sources ...
Theology and Modern Physics
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By Peter E. Hodgson
October 31, 2019
The new discoveries in physics during the twentieth century have stimulated intense debate about their relevance to age-old theological questions. Views range from those holding that modern physics provides a surer road to God than traditional religions, to those who say that physics and theology ...