1st Edition
Science, Religion and Deep Time
1. Introduction
Lowell Gustafson, David Blanks, and Barry H. Rodrigue
Part I: Deep Time, Science and Religion
2. Science and Religion in Big History: The Dialogue Model
David Blanks
3. Meaningful Mystery
Todd L. Duncan
4. The Children of Climate Change and their Search for Meaning
Barry H. Rodrigue
5. Not by Bread Alone: Religion in Big History: An Anthropologist’s Understanding
Brian Spooner
6. Is God Big Enough? Of Religion and Big History
William Grassie
7. The Nature of Humans, Science, and Religion
Davidson Loehr
8. A Big History Perspective on Science and Religion: Peaceful Coexistence and Progress for Humanity
Mathew Chandrankunnel
9. The Ties that Bind
Lowell S. Gustafson
10. The Three Questions: Understanding Religion Epistemologically
Ken Baskin
11. Religion in Big History
Lacy Loar-Gruenler
Part II: Deep Time, Religion and Science
12. Teilhard, Big History, and the Question of Cosmic Purpose
John Haught
13. Whither Thou Go, O Universe? Why Religion and Evolution Belong Together
Ilia Delio
14. Shinto in the Light of Big History
Hiroko Shiota
15. Big History and Earth Spirituality: Towards a Significant Eco-Social Paradigm
Siddhartha
16. The Vedas, Tribal Perspectives, and Big History
H. Sudarshan
17. Searching the Name: Metaphors of the Divine in Our Evolving Cosmos
Jerry Harp
18. The Nature of our Consciousness
Orla Hazra
19. Women’s Spirituality as a Measure of Deep Time and Social Ecology
Richa Minocha
20. Islam and Big History
Hideki Iwaki
21. Deep Time from the Viewpoint of Islam
Shamshuddin Jusop
Tan Chee Keong
22. When did Homo sapiens become Homo Religiosus? Just-so Stories, Evolution, and Big History
Ted Peters
Biography
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.
