Rebirth of the Sacred - Science, Religion, and the New Environmental Ethos

Informationen zum Autor Robert Nadeau is an intensely interdisciplinary scholar who has attempted throughout his career to bridge the gap between what British physicist and novelist C.P. Snow termed the two-cultures of humanists-social scientists and scientists-engineers. Nadeau has previously published nine books and numerous articles that cover a wide variety of subject fields on both sides of the two-culture divide. Klappentext Argues that a new dialogue between truths of science and religion provides a basis for articulating and disseminating an environmental ethos which could result in the fairly rapid emergence of well organized and highly effective worldwide movement in religious environmentalism Zusammenfassung Argues that a new dialogue between truths of science and religion provides a basis for articulating and disseminating an environmental ethos which could result in the fairly rapid emergence of well organized and highly effective worldwide movement in religious environmentalism Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Chapter One: Rebirth of the Sacred: Science, Religion and the New Environmental Ethos Chapter Two: The New Story of Humanity: Brains, Minds, and the Environmental Crisis Chapter Three: The New Story in Physics: Mind, Matter, and the Non-local Universe Chapter Four: The New Story in Biology: Parts and Wholes in the Web of Life Chapter Five: The Old Story: Sovereign Nation States and Myths of National Identity Chapter Six: The Old Story: Metaphysics, Newtonian Physics, and Classical Economics Chapter Seven: The Old Story: Metaphysics, Nineteenth Century Physics, and Neoclassical Economics Chapter Eight: The Old Story: Economic Globalization, the Market Consensus, and the New State Religion Chapter Nine: The Dream of this Place with Us: Science, Religion, and the Environmental Crisis

Product details

• Authors: Robert Nadeau, Robert (Professor Nadeau
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2013
• EAN: 9780199942367
• ISBN: 978-0-19-994236-7
• No. of pages: 200
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / General, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, RELIGION / Religion & Science, Philosophy of Science, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Life sciences: general issues, Religion and science, Religion & science, Environmentalist thought and ideology