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)