Intersections of Religion and Astronomy

ISBN-13: 9780367618339 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 242 str.

Aaron Ricker; Christopher J. Corbally; Darry Dinnell

Opis

This volume examines the way in which cultural ideas about "the heavens" shape religious ideas and are shaped by them in return.

Spis treści

Introduction; Part 1 Intersections of Astronomy and Religion: Ancient and Post-Ancient Worlds; 1 Religion and Cosmology-John T. Fitzgerald; 2 Calling Down the Spirits in the Sky: Blackfoot Astronomy and Sense of The Sacred-Eldon Yellowhorn; 3 To Reverently Bestow the Seasons: Calendrical Narratives in Early China and Rome-Rebecca Robinson; 4 Celestial Deities in the Flat-Earth Buddhist Cosmos and Astrology-Jeffrey Kotyk; 5 Early Islamic Encounters with the Rains Stars of pre-Islamic Arabian Astronomy-Danielle Adams; 6 Cosmology and Religious Culture in Jewish and Byzantine Art-Shulamit Laderman; 7 In Search of the Stars of David: Situating the Rabbinic Jewish Astronomical Tradition in World Cultural Astronomy Scholarship-Andrea D. Lobel; Part 2 The European Enlightenment and Scientific Revolution; 8 The Cosmos of a Big God: Brahe, Kepler, Bruno and the Sizes of the Stars in a Copernican Universe-Christopher M. Graney; 9 Apocalyptic Themes in Isaac Newton’s Astronomical Physics-Stephen D. Snobelen; 10 Georges Lemaître’s Dual Life in Cosmology and Theology-Simon Mitton and Rodney D. Holder; 11 Albert Einstein’s Cosmic Religion-Nicholas Campion; Part 3 The Modern World; 12 Market Predictions: Astrology in Modern India-Parna Sengupta; 13 Faster than the Speed of NASA: The Tenth Planet, Prophecy and the Universalization of a Gujarati Village Goddess-Darry Dinnell; 14 Radiance and Darkness: Japanese Buddhist Cosmographies-Melissa Anne-Marie Curley; 15 Abductions Angelic and Alien: The Changing Cosmologies of Otherworldly Journeys-James F. McGrath; 16 Astrophysics and Religion-Arnold O. Benz; 17 The Epistemology of Flat Earth Theory: Evidentialism, Suspicion, and the Ethics of Belief-Jennifer Guyver; Part 4 Future Directions; 18 Astrobiology, Astroethics, and Astrotheology in Conversation-Grace Wolf-Chase; 19 Religious Traditions and Religious Imagination in Cosmos Contexts-John Hart; 20 Wonder Brokers: Scientific Wonder as Spiritual Authority in the Cosmos Series (1980 and 2014)-Aaron Ricker; Conclusion