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Title Science and religion. East and West / Yiftach Fehige
Published Basingstoke : Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (232 pages)
Series Science and Technology Studies
Science and technology studies.
Contents Science international (beyond the West): the ups and downs of trans-cultural science / Varadaraja V. Raman -- Zen, Suzuki and the art of psychotherapy / Anne Harrington -- India's response to Darwin / David L. Gosling -- Perspectives on the relation between science and religion in India / A. Raghuramaraju -- Jagadish Chandra Bose and Vedantic science / C. Mackenzie Brown -- Ancient Indian philosophy meets modern Western science: discussions of causality and consciousness in the colonial Indian academy / Nalini Bhushan -- Being religious, being scientific: science, religion and atheism in contemporary India / Renny Thomas -- Betwixt science and religion -- East and West: Jesuits in seventeenth and eighteenth-century southern India / John B. Lourdusamy -- Exploring the contemporary debate over Islam and science in India: portrait of the Aligarh school / Stefano Bigliardi -- How scientific was Islamic science? A case study in the alchemy of al-Razi / Paul Greenham -- Western influences on Greek scholars: the scientific education of Greek Orthodox during the seventeenth century / Efthymios Nicolaidis
Summary This volume situates itself within the context of the rapidly growing interdisciplinary field that is dedicated to the study of the complex interactions between science and religion. It presents an innovative approach insofar as it addresses the Eurocentrism that is still prevalent in this field. At the same time it reveals how science develops in the space that emerges between the 'local' and the 'global'. The volume examines a range of themes central to the interaction between science and religion: 'Eastern' thought within 'Western' science and religion and vice versa, and revisits thinkers who sought to integrate 'Eastern' and "Western" thinking. It studies Zen Buddhism and its relation to psychotherapy, Islamic science, Vedantic science, atheism in India, and Darwinism, offering in turn new perspectives on a variety of approaches to nature. Part of the Science and Technology Studies series, this volume brings together original perspectives from major scholars from across disciplines and will be of great interest to scholars and students of science and technology studies, history of science, philosophy of science, religious studies, and sociology
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Religion and science -- Asia
East and West.
Philosophy and science.
Philosophy, Asian.
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- General.
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
East and West
Philosophy and science
Philosophy, Asian
Religion and science
Asia
Form Electronic book
Author Fehige, Yiftach J. H
ISBN 9781317335238
1317335236
9781315659831
1315659832