Science and Religion in a Post Colonial World (paperback) | Interfaith Perspectives

This book addresses selected issues in the emerging field of science and religion and at the same time acknowledge the situation of Indonesia (or, more generally, a ‘Third World’ country) as the locus for this discussion. The book is concerned with how various world religions, in particular Islam and Christianity respond to shared challenges posed by science, as new theories in cosmology, physics, and the life sciences have brought challenges to many traditional religious ideas. There are also more generally epistemological challenges which reflect the recent success of natural science as a mode of inquiry. These are felt as problems in both the Western and non-Western worlds, but with an important difference. While the Western world is considered the “legitimate owner” of modern science, some in the Muslim world, and the Third World more generally, see modern science as a cultural alien imposed on them, due to its initial introduction in the colonial period.Contributors Include: Mahmoud AyoubProfessor of Islamic Studies/Comparative Religion, Temple University, USAOsman BakarMalaysia Chair of Islam in Southeast Asia, Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown UniversityPhilip ClaytonProfessor and Chair of the Philosophy Department, California State University, Sonoma; Principle Investigator, Science and the Spiritual Quest ProjectSteve FullerProfessor of Sociology at the University of Warwick, UKMehdi GolshaniDirector of the Institute for Humanities and Culltural Studies, Tehran, IranBruno GuiderdoniDirector of Research, Paris Institute of Astrophysics; Director, Islamic Institute for Advanced StudiesTeuku JakobFaculty of Medicine, Gadjah Mada University, IndonesiaKarlinaSupelliDriyarkara School of Philosophy, JakartaMeera NandaVisiting Scholar, Philosophy Department, Columbia UniversityJ. Sudarminta, S.J.Rector, Driyarkara Academy of Philosophy, JakartaWilliam Grassie, Founder and Excecutive Editor, Metanexus Institute on Religion and ScienceLarry L. RasmussenReinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics, Union Theological Seminary, New York City