Science and Religion

Yiftach Fehige is Professor of Philosophy for Christianity and Science, Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (IHPST), University of Toronto, Canada. He is widely published in the field of science and religion.

"By extending the scope of the discussion beyond the Western Christian world, it not only addresses these old questions but raises some new ones." - Gregory W. Dawes, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand"Yitfach Fehige argues that the growing field of science and religion has a 'predominant narrow focus on Western Christendom' (2)." - Jonathan Edelmann, University of Florida, USA“This is one of the most important recent historical studies of science and religion because it looks at the issues in a global context…this book is an excellent source for a course on science and religion, providing new histories beyond the more familiar, but equally important, Western histories. The editor and chapter authors also provide substantial material for scholars and scientists interested in the science-religion dialogue.” (https://readingreligion.org/9781138961364/science-and-religion/)“…an…outstanding volume.” (ISIS: A Journal of the History of Science Society, vol. 108, number 3 (2017), p. 675)“Anne Harrington’s stands out from the rest in this volume as a strong stand-alone piece that answers the question of why Zen Buddhism has acquired an almost universal understanding in the West as a form of ‘psychotherapy by other means,’ a view that is profoundly alien to its practice in Japanese temples and monasteries.” (NUMEN: International Journal for the History of Religions, vol. 66 (2019), p. 319).“Fehige’s contributors illustrate that the one universal element of the study of religion and science is that there are very few universals, and any assumptions regarding their supposed ‘conflict’ must be thoroughly debunked.” (Religious Studies Review, vol. 44, number 4 (2018), p. 389)

• Introduction 1. Science International (Beyond the West): The Ups and Downs of Trans-Cultural Science 2. Zen, Suzuki and the Art of Psychotherapy 3. India's Response to Darwin 4. Perspectives on the Relation between Science and Religion in India 5. Jagadish Chandra Bose and Vedantic Science 6. Ancient Indian Philosophy meets Modern Western Science: Discussions of Causality and Consciousness in the Colonial Indian Academy 7. Being Religious, Being Scientific: Science, Religion, and Atheism in Contemporary India 8. Betwixt Science and Religion; East and West: Jesuits in 17th and 18th Century Southern India 9. Exploring the Contemporary Debate Over Islam and Science in India: Portrait of the Aligarh School 10. How Scientific was Islamic Science? A Case Study in the Alchemy of al-Razi 11. Western influences on Greek scholars: The scientific education of Greek Orthodox during the 17th century