Science And Religion In A Post-colonial World 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 Ayoub Professor of Islamic Studies/Comparative Religion, Temple University, USA Osman Bakar Malaysia Chair of Islam in Southeast Asia, Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University Philip Clayton Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department, California State University, Sonoma; Principle Investigator, Science and the Spiritual Quest Project Steve Fuller Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick, UK Mehdi Golshani Director of the Institute for Humanities and Culltural Studies, Tehran, Iran Bruno Guiderdoni Director of Research, Paris Institute of Astrophysics; Director, Islamic Institute for Advanced Studies Teuku Jakob Faculty of Medicine, Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia Karlina Supelli Driyarkara School of Philosophy, Jakarta Meera Nanda Visiting Scholar, Philosophy Department, Columbia University J. Sudarminta, S.J. Rector, Driyarkara Academy of Philosophy, Jakarta William Grassie, Founder and Excecutive Editor, Metanexus Institute on Religion and Science Larry L. Rasmussen Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics, Union Theological Seminary, New York CityBagir, Zainal Abidin is the author of 'Science And Religion In A Post-colonial World Interfaith Perspectives', published 2006 under ISBN 9781920691349 and ISBN 1920691340.