Science, Religion and Deep Time - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0367763818 ISBN 13: 9780367763817

Publisher: Routledge India, 2022

Synopsis

This book examines the meaning of religion within the scientific, evidence-based history of our known past since the big bang. While our current major religions are only centuries or millennia old, our volume discusses the origins and development of human religious practice and belief over our species’ existence of 300,000 years.

The volume also connects the scientific approach to natural and social history with ancient truths of our religious ancestors using new lines of inquiry, new technologies, new modes of expression, and new concepts. It brings together insights of natural scientists, social scientists, philosophers, writers, and theologians to discuss narratives of the universe. The essays discuss that to apprehend religion scientifically, or to interpret and explain science theologically, the subject must be examined through a variety of disciplinary lenses simultaneously and raise several theoretical, philosophical, and moral problems.

With a singular investigation into the meaning of religion in the context of the 13.8 billion-year history of our universe, this book will be indispensable for scholars and students of religious studies, big history, sociology and social anthropology, philosophy, and science and technology studies.

About this title

About the Author

Lowell Gustafson is professor of political science at Villanova University, USA.

Barry H. Rodrigue is an archaeologist, geographer, and professor of anthropology at Symbiosis International University, Pune, Maharashtra, India.

David Blanks teaches in the Department of History and Political Science, Arkansas Tech University, USA.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge India
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367763818
• ISBN 13: 9780367763817
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384
• Editor: Gustafson Lowell, Rodrigue Barry, Blanks David