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Religion & Science - Books
Here are some of the recent books which are found mentioned in the pages of Zygon.
Please scroll down to see the recent symposia on books that have appeared in Zygon.
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.
- • 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.
- • 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.
- • 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: University of Hawai’i Press. Reviewed by Esben Petersen, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 54:282-85.
- • 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.
- • 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.
- • 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.
- • 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.
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.