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This book examines the meaning of religion within the scientific,
evidence-based history of our known past since the big bang. While
our current major religions are only centuries or millennia old,
our volume discusses the origins and development of human religious
practice and belief over our species' existence of 300,000 years.
The volume also connects the scientific approach to natural and
social history with ancient truths of our religious ancestors using
new lines of inquiry, new technologies, new modes of expression,
and new concepts. It brings together insights of natural
scientists, social scientists, philosophers, writers, and
theologians to discuss narratives of the universe. The essays
discuss that to apprehend religion scientifically, or to interpret
and explain science theologically, the subject must be examined
through a variety of disciplinary lenses simultaneously and raise
several theoretical, philosophical, and moral problems. With a
singular investigation into the meaning of religion in the context
of the 13.8 billion-year history of our universe, this book will be
indispensable for scholars and students of religious studies, big
history, sociology and social anthropology, philosophy, and science
and technology studies.
This book examines the meaning of religion within the scientific,
evidence-based history of our known past since the big bang. While
our current major religions are only centuries or millennia old,
our volume discusses the origins and development of human religious
practice and belief over our species' existence of 300,000 years.
The volume also connects the scientific approach to natural and
social history with ancient truths of our religious ancestors using
new lines of inquiry, new technologies, new modes of expression,
and new concepts. It brings together insights of natural
scientists, social scientists, philosophers, writers, and
theologians to discuss narratives of the universe. The essays
discuss that to apprehend religion scientifically, or to interpret
and explain science theologically, the subject must be examined
through a variety of disciplinary lenses simultaneously and raise
several theoretical, philosophical, and moral problems. With a
singular investigation into the meaning of religion in the context
of the 13.8 billion-year history of our universe, this book will be
indispensable for scholars and students of religious studies, big
history, sociology and social anthropology, philosophy, and science
and technology studies.
This book highlights the complexities of nationalism and the
struggles of different groups left unaddressed within the
nation-states of a postcolonial world. The central question is what
happened to the worldly and radical visions of freedom, liberty,
and equality that animated intellectual activists and policy makers
from Woodrow Wilson in the 1920s? This book analyzes the outcome of
lumping disparate groups of people together under one nation-state
and holding them together against the knowledge of the
incompatibility theory of plural states. In a world of arbitrarily
and colonially mapped sovereign states, groups, and nations with
distinctive histories and cultures trapped within the borders of
sovereign states want the freedom to decide their own destinies.
This book challenges, deconstructs, and decolonizes Western
epistemologies related to postcolonial state formation and
maintenance. In examining the freedom concept that no human group
ought to be determining the independence of other human groups,
this book constructs an alternative conceptualization of nations
and peoples' rights in the twenty-first century, in which radical
hopes and global dreams are recognized as central to internal
nationalism struggles.
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