Global Perspectives on Science and ReligionPranab DasFirst Edition 1Label: Templeton Foundation PressU.S.Description: Gathering thinkers from ten countries and various scientific and spiritual backgrounds Global Perspectives on Science and Spirituality leads readers on a fascinating tour of distinctly non-Western approaches to topics in these two fields. These voices add fresh and invigorating input to a dialogue that has thus far been predominantly guided by scholars from the United States or Western Europe. The award-winning researchers in this volume were selected from a pool of over one hundred and fifty applications. They offer the very best scholarship from underrepresented regions around the globe. The essays cover a broad spectrum of scientific fields spanning mathematical physics robotics biosemiotics and other new schools of theoretical biology embryonic stem cells cognitive science and the concept of opening the human mind to broader ideas of reality. Hailing from some of the top research institutions in India Japan Russia Korea China and a variety of Eastern European nations contributors offer unique insights into their cultures' spiritual and philosophical traditions. At the same time they deftly engage concepts from the ongoing Western dialogue in its terms delving deeply at times into schools of thought like phenomenology or process thought. Scholars students researchers and anyone seeking new ways of understanding the interplay of spirituality and science will discover a multitude of windows into previously underexplored research areas in these truly interdisciplinary essays. Indeed any of these pieces could serve as the basis for entirely new long-term study programs.
