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Author:   Dr Alex Bentley
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Dimensions:   Width: 12.90cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 19.80cm
Weight:   0.295kg
ISBN:  

9781847062185

ISBN 10:   1847062180
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   22 September 2008
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print  
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

Forward: Mary Midgley Introduction Alex Bentley, Durham University Should scientists challenge religious beliefs in modern society? 1 Science and religion: negotiating the 21st century rapids.Denis Alexander, Cambridge University 2 Why new atheist definitions of religion fail. Mark Hulsether, University of Tennessee 3 Aboriginal versus Western creationism. Bob Layton, Durham University 4 Science versus anthropology, not religion.Simon Coleman, Sussex University 5 Atheism and liberty. Michael Shermer, Sceptics Society & Scientific American Is religion inevitable? Prehistory and evolution 6 The evolution of warfare. Herbert Maschner and Katherine Reedy-Maschner, Idaho State University 7Why we are good: Mirror neurons and the roots of empathy. Gordy Slack, US Author 8The evolution of religion. Lewis Wolpert, University College London 9Is religion inevitable? An archaeologist's view from the past. Steven Mithen, University of Reading 10 Artificials, or why Darwin was wrong about humans. Timothy Taylor, University of Bradford Is religion harmful? From brains to societies 11 Brain science and belief. Andrew Newberg, University of Pennsylvania 12 Why Richard Dawkins is wrong about religion. David Sloan Wilson, Binghamton University 13Public terror vs. public good: Views from Japan and England. Ian Reader, University of Manchester 14Buddhism: A better balance in the East? Hiroko Kawanami, Lancaster University Can science itself inspire spiritual wonder? Broader views 15Can scientific discovery be a spiritual experience? John Hedley Brooke, Oxford University 16Heavens above! Old notions never die, they just incorporate.William Calvin, University of Washington 17Other intelligences. Seth Shostak, SETI Institute Senior Astronomer 18Natural theology in contemporary cosmology. David Wilkinson, Durham University Epilogue: Science and Religion, not Science or Religion. Michael J. O'Brien, University of Missouri

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A stimulating series of brief forays into the science-theology-atheism border lands which will send the reader off to follow up leads here and there. Highlights are the discussions of evolution in terms that go beyond the individual gene or creature (and the observation that these inter preta tions were frowned upon by Thatcherites), and of the part played by mirror neurons in the fledgling evolution ary history of selfhood. - Church Times

Systems of logic and belief never split into neat oppositions between science and religion, but are mediated by cultural, philosophical, and contextual forces that shape these systems - all of them - as reasonable and natural. It is the making and mobilisation of the givens of human knowledge, rather than its perfection to grasp a preordained cosmology, that must be understood if we are to break free of the impasse that has come to prevail between Creationists and Evolutionists, as revealed in this fascinating dialogue between leading anthropologists, archaeologists, philosophers, theologians, biologists and physicists. Inter-disciplinarity at its best! Professor Ash Amin, Director of the Institute of Advanced Study, Durham University, UK

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Alex Bentley is Reader in the Department of Anthropology at Durham University, UK.

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