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"This book does a superbly detailed job of delineating the spiritual traditions of China and India at their points of intersection with issues that we today would call scientific. He covers such fields as cosmology, astronomy, medicine and ecology, and show how each of these was understood in the tradiational thinking of China and India."
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Catholic Library World
"This is a useful and wide-ranging book that looks at the relationship between science and the Asian spiritual traditions. . . . I welcome this book that should greatly help those who want to have an introductory survey of this area. It is written in an accessible nontechnical style. The author has interesting things to say about many Asian practices in science and religion, and his explanations are, on the whole, clear and accurate. . . . recommended for those who are interested in the science-religion dialogue in a multicultural context."
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Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith
Overview
This volume in the Greenwood Guides to Science and Religion series examines how Asian spiritual traditions — primarily the religions of India and China - interacted and influenced the understanding of the natural world over the last two millennia. Unlike the religious and scientific traditions of the Christian West, which developed in tandem, or even the Islamic world, which helped the rise of Western science, the Asian religious traditions did not encounter Western science until relatively recently. This has led...