Religion & Science - Books

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Recent books reviewed in Zygon.

• Baldwin, Jennifer, ed. 2018. Navigating Post-Truth and Alternative Facts: Religion and Science as Political Theology. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. Reviewed by Arthur C. Petersen, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 54:1145-46.
• Berry, Evan, ed. 2022. Climate Politics and the Power of Religion. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. Reviewed by Madeleine Ary Hahne, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 57:287-89.
• Carr, Paul H. and Paul Arveson, eds. 2020. Stanley Jaki Foundation International Congress 2015. Herefordshire, UK: Gracewing. Reviewed by Peter Heasley, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 55:1130-31.
• Coviello, Peter. 2019. Make Yourselves Gods: Mormons and the Unfinished Business of American Secularism. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press. Reviewed by Jerome Ravetz, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 55:565-67.
• Dawes, Gregory. 2021. Deprovincializing Science and Religion. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Reviewed by Samuel VIncenzo Jonathan, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 56:804-5.
• Ecklund, Elaine Howard. 2020. Why Science and Faith Need Each Other: Eight Shared Values That Move Us Beyond Fear. Ada, MI: Brazos Press. Reviewed by Arthur C. Petersen, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 56:297-98.
• Ecklund, Elaine Howard and Christopher P. Scheitle. 2018. Religion vs. Science: What Religious People Really Think. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. Reviewed by Christopher Hrynkow, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 54:280-82.
• Fischer, John Martin . 2019. Death, Immortality, and Meaning in Life. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. Reviewed by Patrick Brissey, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 56:1130-31.
• Flescher, Andrew Michael. 2018. The Organ Shortage Crisis in America: Incentives, Civic Duty, and Closing the Gap. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press. Reviewed by Kristel Clayville, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 54:542-43.
• Flood, Gavin. 2019. Religion and the Philosophy of Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Reviewed by Lluís Oviedo, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 56:533-36.
• Frischmann, Brett and Evan Selinger. 2018. Rengineering Humanity. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Reviewed by Lluís Oviedo, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 54:813-15.
• Godart, G. Clinton. 2017. Darwin, Dharma, and the Divine: Evolutionary Theory and Religion in Modern Japan. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai’i Press. Reviewed by Esben Petersen, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 54:282-85.
• Hoff, Johannes. 2021. Verteidigung des Heiligen: Anthropologie der digitalen Transformation. Freiburg: Verlag Herder. Reviewed by Mark Coeckelbergh, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 56:1131-33.
• Kumar, Alok. 2019. Ancient Hindu Science: Its Transmission and Impact on World Cultures. San Rafael, CA: Morgan & Claypool Publishers. Reviewed by V. V. Raman, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 55:837-38.
• Luhrmann, T. M. 2020. How God Becomes Real: Kindling the Presence of Invisible Others. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Reviewed by Lluís Oviedo, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 56:807-10.
• Oppy, Graham. 2018. Naturalism and Religion: A Contemporary Philosophical Investigation. New York, NY: Routledge. Reviewed by Tiddy Smith, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 54:285-88.
• Pinker, Steven. 2021. Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters. London: Allen Lane. Reviewed by Lluís Oviedo, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 57:514-16.
• Radder, Hans. 2019. From Commodification to the Common Good: Reconstructing Science, Technology, and Society. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press. Reviewed by Arthur C. Petersen, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 55:275-76.
• Ritchie, Sarah Lane. 2019. Divine Action and the Human Mind. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Reviewed by Jonathan W. Chappell, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 56:805-7.
• Tallis, Raymond. 2018. Logos: The Mystery of How We Make Sense of the World. Newcastle upon Tyne: Agenda Publishing Limited. Reviewed by Jonathan W. Chappell, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 55:839-41.
• Tegmark, Max. 2015. Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality. New York: Vintage Paperbacks. Reviewed by Paul H. Carr, Paul Arveson, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 55:1131-33.

Willem B. Drees’s What Are the Humanities For?

A symposium discussing Willem B. Drees’s What Are the Humanities For?.

• Harrison, Peter. 2021. “Defining and Defending the Humanities.” Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 56:678-90. • Ruse, Michael. 2021. “Willem Drees on the Humanities.” Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 56:691-703.• Ottati, Douglas F. 2021. “Theology among the Human Humanities.” Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 56:704-17.• Stenmark, Lisa L. 2021. “Who are the Humanities for? Decolonizing the Humanities.” Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 56:718-31.• Drakeman, Donald L. 2021. “Some Second Thoughts About the Humanities.” Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 56:732-45.• Drees, Willem B. 2021. “The Coherence and Character of the Humanities: A Reply to Critics.” Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 56:746-57.

Reeves’s Against Methodology in Science and Religion

A symposium discussing Josh Reeves’s Against Methodology in Science and Religion: Recent Debates on Rationality and Theology.

• Allen, Paul. 2020. “Critical Realism Redux: A Response to Josh Reeves.” Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 55:772-81.
• Stump, J.B. 2020. “Science and Other Common Nouns: Further Implications of Anti-Essentialism.” Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 55:782-91.• Jordan, Peter N. 2020. “Legitimacy and the Field of Science and Religion.” Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 55:792-804.• Wright, Jaime. 2020. “Making Space for the Methodological Mosaic: The Future of the Field of Science and Religion.” Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 55:805-11.• Lorrimar, Victoria. 2020. “Science and Religion: Moving beyond the Credibility Strategy.” Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 55:812-23.• Reeves, Josh. “Methodology in Science and Religion: A Reply to Critics.” Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 55:824-36.

Rick Repetti’s Buddhism, Meditation, and Free Will

A symposium discussing Rick Repetti’s Buddhism, Meditation, and Free Will: A Theory of Mental Freedom.

• Coseru, Christian. 2020. “Free Your Mind: Buddhist Meditation and the Free Will Problem.” Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 55:461-73.• Caruso, Gregg D. 2020. “Buddhism, Free Will, and Punishment: Taking Buddhist Ethics Seriously.” Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 55:474-96.• Cummiskey, David. 2020. “Ego-less Agency: Dharma-Responsiveness without Kantian Autonomy.” Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 55:497-518.• Meyers, Karin L. 2020. “Mental Freedom and Freedom of the Loving Heart: Free Will and Buddhist Meditation.” Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 55:519-39.• Repetti, Rick. 2020. “A Defense of Buddhism, Meditation, and Free Will: A Theory of Mental Freedom.” Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 55:540-64.

John Evans’s Morals Not Knowledge

A symposium discussing John H. Evan’s Morals Not Knowledge: Recasting the Contemporary U.S. Conflict between Religion and Science.

• Harris, Mark. 2019. “‘The People of This Country Have Had Enough of Experts’: In Defense of the ‘Elites’ of the Science-and-Religion Debate.” Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 54:602-17.• Elsdon-Baker, Fern. 2019. “In Defense of Publics: Projection, Bias, and Cultural Narratives in Science and Religion Debates.” Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 54:618-33.• Ecklund, Elaine Howard, Sharan Kaur Mehta, and Daniel Bolger. 2019. “A Way Forward for Sociological Research on Science and Religion: A Review and a Riff.” Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 54:634-47.• Crick, Nathan. 2019. “Morality through Inquiry, Motive through Rhetoric: The Politics of Science and Religion in the Epoch of the Anthropocene.” Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 54:648-64.• Evans, John H. 2019. “The Scope and Implications of Morals Not Knowledge.” Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 54:665-79.

Lisa Sideris’s Consecrating Science

A symposium discussing Lisa Sideris’s Consecrating Science: Wonder, Knowledge, and the Natural World.

• Rolston, Holmes, III. 2019. “Lame Science? Blind Religion?” Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 54:351-53. • Fredericks, Sarah E. 2019. “Reacting to Consecrating Science: What Might Amateurs Do?” Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 54:354-81.• Schaefer, Donovan O. 2019. “Mere Science: Mapping the Land Bridge between Emotion, Politics, and Ethics.” Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 54:382-86.• O’Dell-Chaib, Courtney. 2019. “The Shape of This Wonder? Consecrated Science and New Cosmology Affects.” Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 54:387-95.• McGuigan, Colin. 2019. “Wonder Opens the Heart: Pope Francis and Lisa Sideris on Nature, Encounter, and Wonder.” Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 54:396-408.• Tucker, Mary Evelyn. 2019. “Journey of the Universe: Weaving Science with the Humanities.” Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 54:409-25.• Sideris, Lisa H. 2019. “Wonder Sustained: A Reply to Critics.” Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 54:425-53.

Terence Keel’s Divine Variations: A Symposium

A symposium discussing Terence Keel’s Divine Variations: How Christian Thought Became Racial Science.

• Keel, Terence D. 2019. “The Religious Preconditions for the Race Concept in Modern Science.” Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 54:225-29.• Fehige, Yiftach. 2019. “In What Sense Exactly Did Christianity Give Us Racial Science?” Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 54:230-36.• Hamm, Ernie. 2019. “Christian Thought, Race, Blumenbach, and Historicizing” Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 54:237-45.• Marks, Jonathan. 2019. “The Coevolution of Human Origins, Human Variation, and Their Meaning in the Nineteenth Century” Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 54:246-51.• Neswald, Elizabeth. 2019. “Racial Science and ‘Absolute Questions’: Reoccupations and Repositions” Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 54:252-60.• Keel, Terence D. 2019. “Response to My Critics: The Life of Christian Racial Forms in Modern Science.” Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 54:261-79.

Religion & Science - Books

Recent books reviewed in Zygon.

Willem B. Drees’s What Are the Humanities For?

A symposium discussing Willem B. Drees’s What Are the Humanities For?.

Reeves’s Against Methodology in Science and Religion

A symposium discussing Josh Reeves’s Against Methodology in Science and Religion: Recent Debates on Rationality and Theology.

Rick Repetti’s Buddhism, Meditation, and Free Will

A symposium discussing Rick Repetti’s Buddhism, Meditation, and Free Will: A Theory of Mental Freedom.

John Evans’s Morals Not Knowledge

A symposium discussing John H. Evan’s Morals Not Knowledge: Recasting the Contemporary U.S. Conflict between Religion and Science.

Lisa Sideris’s Consecrating Science

A symposium discussing Lisa Sideris’s Consecrating Science: Wonder, Knowledge, and the Natural World.

Terence Keel’s Divine Variations: A Symposium

A symposium discussing Terence Keel’s Divine Variations: How Christian Thought Became Racial Science.

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