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1 online resource (xiii, 224 pages) : illustrations |
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Introduction / Pranab Das -- The puzzle of consciousness and experiential primacy : agency in cognitive sciences and spiritual experiences / Sangeetha Menon -- Religion, science, and lebenswelt : new interdisciplinary crossroads / Ilya Kasavin -- Science and spirituality in modern India / Makarand Paranjape -- Kokoro [mind-heart-spirit] : affirming science and religion in the Japanese context / Paul Swanson -- Daoism and the uncertainty principle / Jiang Sheng -- Whitehead reconsidered from a Buddhist perspective / Ryusei Takeda -- Sanctity of life : a reflection on human embryonic stem cell debates from an east Asian perspective / Heup Young Kim -- Aut Moses, aut Darwin? / A. Markos︣ [and others] -- Human origins : continuous evolution versus punctual creation / Grzegorz Bugajak and Jacek Tomczyk -- Mathematics as a formal ontology : the hermeneutical dimensions of natural sciences and eastern patristics / Alexei Chernyakov -- Is mathematics able to open the systems of the human intellect? / Botond Gaál -- On the role of transcendence in science and religion / Ladislav Kvasz |
| Summary |
Gathering thinkers from ten countries and from a variety of scientific and spiritual backgrounds, Global Perspectives on Science and Spirituality leads readers on a fascinating tour of distinctly non-Western approaches to topics in these two fields. These voices add fresh and invigorating input to a dialogue that has thus far been predominantly guided by scholars from the United States or Western Europe. The award-winning researchers represented in this volume were selected from a pool of over one hundred and fifty applications, and they offer the very best scholarship from underrepresented |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Religion and science.
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Religion and Science
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RELIGION -- Religion & Science.
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Religion and science
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Das, Pranab K. (Pranab Kumar)
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| ISBN |
9781599473611 |
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1599473615 |
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1283260573 |
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9781283260572 |
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9786613260574 |
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6613260576 |
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