ABSTRACT
This volume examines the way in which cultural ideas about "the heavens" shape religious ideas and are shaped by them in return. Our approaches to cosmology have a profound effect on the way in which we each deal with religious questions and participate in the imaginative work of public and private world-building.
Employing an interdisciplinary team of international scholars, each chapter shows how religion and cosmology interrelate and matter for real people. Historical and contemporary case studies are included to demonstrate the lived reality of a variety of faith traditions and their interactions with the cosmos. This breadth of scope allows readers to get a unique overview of how religion, science and our view of space have, and will continue to, impact our worldviews.
Offering a comprehensive exploration of humanity and its relationship with cosmology, this book will be an important reference for scholars of Religion and Science, Religion and Culture, Interreligious Dialogue and Theology, as well as those interested in Science and Culture and Public Education.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|74 pages
Intersections of astronomy and religion
chapter 7|7 pages
In search of the stars of David
part 2|48 pages
Intersections of astronomy and religion
chapter 8|14 pages
The cosmos of a Big God
part 3|67 pages
Intersections of astronomy and religion
chapter 13|13 pages
Faster than the speed of NASA
chapter 17|9 pages
The epistemology of Flat Earth theory
part 4|34 pages
Intersections of astronomy and religion