ABSTRACT
To explore the nexus of science and religion by keeping the notion of multi-perspectivalism in focus (see Bauman’s introduction), it is necessary to engage in a sort of comparative epistemology, exploring the differing presuppositions of divergent knowledge systems. Whereas several of the chapters in the last section dealt with one tradition’s (Christianity’s) reaction to specific research trajectories in the biological and geophysical sciences, this section explores Asian knowledge systems with particular emphasis on their views of health and healing. Some epistemologies challenge the usual presuppositions about to whom, and to what, we ought to belong, or be connected.
