The field of `science and religion' is exploding in popularity among both academics and the reading public. This is a comprehensive and authoritative introduction to the debate, written by the leading experts yet accessible to the general reader.

• 1: Philip Clayton: Introduction


• I.Religion and Science across the World's Traditions


• 2: Sangeetha Menon: Hinduism and Science


• 3: B. Alan Wallace: Buddhism and Science


• 4: Norbert M. Samuelson: Judaism and Science


• 5: John Polkinghorne: Christianity and Science


• 6: Seyyed Hossein Nasr: Islam and Science


• 7: John Grim: Indigenous Lifeways and Knowing the World


• 8: Willem Drees: Religious Naturalism and Science


• 9: Peter Atkins: Atheism and Science


• II. Conceiving Religion in Light of the Contemporary Sciences


• 10: Bernard Carr: Cosmology and Religion


• 11: Kirk Wegter-McNelly: Fundamental Physics and Religion


• 12: Martinez Hewlett: Molecular Biology and Religion


• 13: Jeffrey P. Schloss: Evolutionary Theory and Religion


• 14: Susan Bratton: Ecology and Religion


• 15: Evan Thompson: The Neurosciences and Religion


• 16: Raymond F. Paloutzian: Psychology, the Human Sciences, and Religion


• 17: Richard Fenn: Sociology and Religion


• 18: Michael Lambek: Anthropology and Religion


• III. The Major Fields of Religion/Science


• 19: John Hedley Brooke: Contributions from the History of Science and Religion


• 20: Robert A. Segal: Contributions from Religious Studies


• 21: Robin Collins: Contributions from the Philosophy of Science


• 22: Joseph Bracken: Contributions from Philosophical Theology and Metaphysics


• 23: Wolfhart Pannenberg: Contributions from Systematic Theology


• 24: Ted Peters: Contributions from Practical Theology and Ethics


• 25: Pauline Rudd: Simplicity - Complexity - Simplicity: The Perspectives of Spirituality


• IV. Methodological Approaches to the Study of Religion and Science


• 26: Scott Atran: The Scientific Landscape of Religion: Evolution, Culture, and Cognition


• 27: Owen Flanagan: Varieties of Naturalism


• 28: David Ray Griffin: Interpreting Science from the Standpoint of Whitheadian Process Philosophy


• 29: Nancey Murphy: Anglo-American Postmodernity and the End of Theology-Science Dialogue?


• 30: F. LeRon Shults: Trinitarian Faith Seeking Transformative Understanding


• 31: Phillip H. Wiebe: Religious Experience, Cognitive Science, and the Future of Religion


• 32: Ken Wilber and Sean Esbjorn-Hargens: Toward a Comprehensive Integration of Science and Religion: A Post-Metaphysical Approach


• V. Central Theoretical Debates in Religion and Science


• `Science and Religion' or `Theology and Science'?


• 33: Michael Welker: Science and Theology: Their Relation at the Beginning of the Third Millennium


• 34: Philip Hefner: Religion-and-Science


• Science, Theology, and Divine Action


• 35: Robert John Russell: Quantum Physics and the Theology of Non-Interventionist Objective Divine Action


• 36: Tom Tracy: Theologies of Divine Action


• 37: Wesley J. Wildman: Ground-of-Being Theologies


• Panentheism and its Critics


• 38: Michael Brierley: The Potential of Panentheism for Dialogue between Science and Religion


• 39: Owen C. Thomas: Problems in Panentheism


• Evolution, Creation, and Belief in God


• 40: Will B. Provine: Evolution, Religion, and Science


• 41: Alister E. McGrath: Darwinism


• 42: John F. Haught: God and Evolution


• Intelligent Design and its Critics


• 43: William Dembski: In Defence of Intelligent Design


• 44: Robert T. Pennock: The Premodern Sins of Intelligent Design


• Theologies of Emergent Complexity and their Critics


• 45: George F. R. Ellis: Physics, Complexity, and the Science-Religion Debate


• 46: Niels Henrik Gregersen: Emergence and Complexity


• 47: Michael Silberstein: Emergence, Theology, and the Manifest Image


• 48: Carl Gillett: The Hidden Battles over Emergence


• Feminist Approaches


• 49: Lisa L. Stenmark: Going Public: Feminist Epistemologies, Hannah Arendt, and the Science and Religion Discourse


• 50: Ann Pedersen: Feminist Perspectives in Medicine and Bioethics


• Human Nature and Ethics


• 51: Ursula Goodenough and Terrence W. Deacon: Emergence, Ethics, and Religious Naturalism


• 52: William B. Hurlbut: Science, Ethics, and the Human Spirit


• VI. Values Issues in Religion and Science


• 53: Celia Deane-Drummond: Theology and Ecology


• 54: Holmes Rolston III: Environmental Ethics and Religion/Science


• 55: Ron Cole-Turner: Biotechnology and the Religion-Science Discussion


• 56: Nancy R. Howell: Relations between Homo sapiens and Other Animals: Scientific and Religious Arguments


• 57: Mary Midgley: Dover Beach Revisited: Concluding Reflections