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SOME KEY READINGS ON RELIGION, SCIENCE, AND NATURE

The literature now is vast.  Here are a few of the items that have recently seemed to me most informative, stimulating, or otherwise helpful.
--S. Smith

FOR REFERENCE AND OVERVIEW:

Ian Barbour, Religion and Science.  Historical and Contemporary Issues  (1997)
Roger Gottlieb, ed., This Sacred Earth.  Religion, Nature, Environment (1996)

ON THE IDEA OF CREATION:

Langdon Gilkey, Creationism on Trial:  Evolution and God at Little Rock (1985) 
Conrad Hyers, The Meaning of Creation.  Genesis and Modern Science (1984)
Ernan McMullin, ed., Evolution and Creation (1985)
William A. Dembski, ed., Mere Creation.  Science, Faith and Intelligent Design (1998)

ON THE IDEA OF NATURE:

Jean Holm, ed.,  Attitudes to Nature (Themes in Religious Studies series) (1994)
Ian Barbour, ed., Earth Might Be Fair (1972)
Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Religion and the Order of Nature (1996)

ON PARADIGMS, MODELS, AND METAPHORS IN RELIGION AND SCIENCE:

Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 2nd ed. (1970)
Sallie McFague, Metaphorical Theology.  Models of God in Religious Language (1982)

ON SCIENCE AS A WAY OF SALVATION (CRITIQUES):

Mary Midgley, Science as Salvation:  A Modern Myth and Its Meaning (1992)
Jeremy Rifkin, Algeny (1983)
Tom Regan, ed., Animal Sacrifices.  Religious Perspectives on the Use of Animals in Science (1986)
Ed Regis, Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition.  Science Slightly Over the Edge (1990)

CULTURAL COMPARISON:

Joseph Needham, Science and Civilization in China, Vol. 2 (1969)
Bruce Holbrook, The Stone Monkey:  An Alternative Chinese-Scientific Reality (1981)

RELIGION AND SCIENCE SYNTHESIS:

Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man (1959)
Brian Swimme and Thomas Berry, The Universe Story (1992)
Fritjof Capra & David Steindl-Rast, Belonging to the Universe (1991)

 

 

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