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.ใThe series enables leading international authors from a range of different disciplinary perspectives to apply the insights of the various sciences, theology,ใphilosophy and history in order toใlook 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.
The Roots of Religion: Exploring the Cognitive Science of Religion
1st Edition
Edited
By Roger Trigg, Justin L. Barrett
February 12, 2018
The cognitive science of religion is a new discipline that looks at the roots of religious belief in the cognitive architecture of the human mind. The Roots of Religion deals with the philosophical and theological implications of the cognitive science of religion which grounds religious belief in ...
The Cognitive Science of Religion
1st Edition
By James A. Van Slyke
November 28, 2016
The cognitive science of religion is a relatively new academic field in the study of the origins and causes of religious belief and behaviour. The focal point of empirical research is the role of basic human cognitive functions in the formation and transmission of religious beliefs. However, many ...
Human Identity at the Intersection of Science, Technology and Religion
1st Edition
By Christopher C. Knight, Nancey Murphy
November 22, 2016
Humans are unique in their ability to reflect on themselves. Recently a number of scholars have pointed out that human self-conceptions have a history. Ideas of human nature in the West have always been shaped by the interplay of philosophy, theology, science, and technology. The fast pace of ...
Naturalism, Theism and the Cognitive Study of Religion: Religion Explained?
1st Edition
By Aku Visala
November 17, 2016
This book provides a critical philosophical analysis of the claim that contemporary cognitive approaches to religion undermine theistic beliefs. Recent scientific work into the evolution and cognition of religion has been driven by and interpreted in terms of a certain kind of philosophical and ...
Cyborg Selves: A Theological Anthropology of the Posthuman
1st Edition
By Jeanine Thweatt-Bates
November 15, 2016
What is the 'posthuman'? Is becoming posthuman inevitable-something which will happen to us, or something we will do to ourselves? Why do some long for it, while others fearfully reject it? These questions underscore the fact that the posthuman is a name for the unknown future, and therefore, not a...
Explorations in Neuroscience, Psychology and Religion
1st Edition
By Kevin S. Seybold
November 15, 2016
In the 1990s great strides were taken in clarifying how the brain is involved in behaviors that, in the past, had seldom been studied by neuroscientists or psychologists. This book explores the progress begun during that momentous decade in understanding why we behave, think and feel the way we do,...
Theology and Psychology
1st Edition
By Fraser Watts
November 10, 2016
Many people are now interested in the relationship between religion and science, but links between Christian belief and psychology have been relatively neglected. This book opens up the dialogue between Christian theology and modern scientific psychology, approaching the dialogue in both ...
Being as Communion: A Metaphysics of Information
1st Edition
By William A. Dembski
September 11, 2014
For a thing to be real, it must be able to communicate with other things. If this is so, then the problem of being receives a straightforward resolution: to be is to be in communion. So the fundamental science, indeed the science that needs to underwrite all other sciences, is a theory of ...
God and the Scientist: Exploring the Work of John Polkinghorne
1st Edition
Edited
By Christopher C. Knight, Fraser Watts
August 22, 2012
This book presents a celebration, survey and critique of the theological work of arguably the most important and most widely-read contributor to the modern dialogue between science and theology: John Polkinghorne. Including a major survey by Polkinghorne himself of his life's work in theology, ...
Principles of Neurotheology
1st Edition
By Andrew B. Newberg
September 28, 2010
First Published in 2017. Neurotheology has garnered substantial attention in the academic and lay communities in recent years. Several books have been written addressing the relationship between the brain and religious experience and numerous scholarly articles have been published on the topic, ...
Christology and Science
1st Edition
By F. LeRon Shults
April 28, 2008
The dialogue between theology and science has blossomed in recent decades, but particular beliefs about Jesus Christ have not often been brought to the forefront of this interdisciplinary discussion even in explicitly Christian contexts. This book breaks new ground by explicitly bringing the ...
Toward a Theology of Scientific Endeavour: The Descent of Science
1st Edition
By Christopher B. Kaiser
October 10, 2007
Foundations of science are specific conditions of the cosmos, of human intelligence, of cultural beliefs, and of technological structures that make the pursuit of modern science possible. Each of the four foundations of scientific endeavour can be studied as a topic on its own. The concurrent study...