In its Winter issue, The Scientific and Medical Network—Network Review reviewed James Proctor’s Envisioning Nature, Science and Religion.
The reader comes away with an enhanced and more subtle understanding of the way in which philosophers and scientists understand nature, which will form the cultural backdrop to any new relationship with nature.
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In its Vol. 6, No. 1 (2010) issue, Holos: Forum for a New Worldview features an article by Vic Mansfield titled Time and Impermanence in Middle Way Buddhism and Modern Physics.
Vic Mansfield, author of Tibetan Buddhisn and Modern Physics, was a professor of physics and astronomy at Colgate University. Along with a wide range of science courses, he taught courses focusing on Tibetan Buddhism and Jungian psychology. He was an award-winning teacher who published scores of technical articles in science and several dozen interdisciplinary papers connecting physics to Tibetan Buddhism and depth psychology. For nearly four decades, he practiced and studied with spiritual leaders in the U.S., Europe, and India. He published two previous books: Synchronicity, Science, and Soul-Making (Open Court Publishing, 1995) and Head and Heart: A Personal Exploration of Science and the Sacred (Quest Books, 2002)
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Theological Book Review reviews Harold Koenig’s Medicine, Religion, and Health:
. . . .one could not ask for a better introduction to this fascinating and inevitably perplexing area.
Medicine, Religion, and Health: Where Science and Spirituality Meet is the first title published in the Templeton Science and Religion Series, in which scientists from a wide range of fields distill their experience and knowledge into brief tours of their respective specialties. In this, the series’ maiden volume, Dr. Harold G. Koenig provides an overview of the relationship between health care and religion that manages to be comprehensive yet concise, factual yet inspirational, and technical yet easily accessible to nonspecialists and general readers.
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The Journal of Religion recently reviewed Robert C. Mesle’s Process-Relational Philosophy:
Robert Mesle has written a splendid introduction to process philosophy in the tradition of Alfred North Whitehead. What makes this work so good, in addition to clarity, is that it deals effectively with two of the greatest problems confronting people as they begin to study Whitehead’s philosophy: the technical terminology and the ideas that seem contradictory to commonsense beliefs about the world (particularly those in Western culture).
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In its May 2010 issue, CHOICE reviewed Global Perspectives on Science and Spirituality by Pranab Das.
The book is a welcome addition to the literature on science and religion. Summing Up: Recommended.
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.
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Astronomy Now calls Joseph Silk’s Horizons of Cosmology “incredibly rewarding, with some of the best ‘Eureka!’ moments I’ve yet experienced.”
Horizons of Cosmology: Exploring Worlds Seen and Unseen is the fourth title published in the Templeton Science and Religion Series, in which scientists from a wide range of fields distill their experience and knowledge into brief tours of their respective specialties. In this volume, highly esteemed astrophysicist Joseph Silk explores the vast mysteries and speculations of the field of cosmology in a way that balances an accessible style for the general reader and enough technical detail for advanced students and professionals.
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The June 2010 issue of SciTech Book News reviews Paleontology: A Brief History of Life by Ian Tattersall. To read the review in its entirety, click here.
Paleontology is the fifth title published in the Templeton Science and Religion Series, in which scientists from a wide range of fields distill their experience and knowledge into brief tours of their respective specialties. In this volume, Ian Tattersall, a highly esteemed figure in the fields of anthropology, archaeology, and paleontology, leads a fascinating tour of the history of life and the evolution of human beings.
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In its June 2010 issue, Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith reviewed Neuroscience, Psychology, and Religion by Malcolm Jeeves and Warren S. Brown.
This text would be an excellent accompaniment either to an upper-division undergraduate course or to an entry-level graduate survey course. It contains a list of recommended readings and an index of names and subjects.
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Every now and then, we publish books on subjects that seem to resist quick summarization. Such is the case with Sacred Desire by Nancy Morrison, MD, and Sally Severino, MD. Within the pages of this book, readers will find fascinating new insights into the workings of the human brain. Some of these insights carry such broad-reaching implications that it can be hard to fully answer the question, what is it about? Fortunately, the authors have created a beautiful video that does just that. Check it out!
Also, be sure to visit their site: www.neurospirit.net
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ESSSAT-News recently reviewed Keith Ward’s The Big Questions in Science and Religion.
There is surely a need for handbooks and synthetic works providing a broad view of the sub-discipline ‘science and theology’: its main issues, the current discussions, and the standard positions.
…the book is very readable, offers an excellent introduction to our field, and constitutes a good attempt to put some order or organization into the many issues at stake. The work is useful and can be recommended as a broad introduction, very needed for those like me teaching the sub-discipline, and desperately looking for synthetic works for the students.
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