| Summary: | Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of contributors -- General introduction -- Part 1 Intersections of astronomy and religion: ancient and post-ancient worlds -- 1 Religion and cosmology -- 2 Calling down the spirits in the sky: Blackfoot astronomy and sense of the sacred -- 3 To reverently bestow the seasons: calendrical narratives in early China and Rome -- 4 Celestial deities in the flat-earth Buddhist cosmos and astrology -- 5 Early Islamic encounters with the rain stars of pre-Islamic Arabian astronomy -- 6 Cosmology and religious culture in Jewish and Byzantine art -- 7 In search of the stars of David: situating the Rabbinic Jewish astronomical tradition in world cultural astronomy scholarship -- Part 2 Intersections of astronomy and religion: enlightenment and scientific revolution -- 8 The cosmos of a Big God: Brahe, Kepler, Bruno and the sizes of the stars in a Copernican universe -- 9 Apocalyptic themes in Isaac Newton's astronomical physics -- 10 Georges Lemaître's dual life in cosmology and theology -- 11 Albert Einstein's cosmic religion -- Part 3 Intersections of astronomy and religion: the modern world -- 12 Market predictions: astrology in modern India -- 13 Faster than the speed of NASA: the tenth planet, prophecy, and the universalization of a Gujarati village goddess -- 14 Radiance and darkness: Japanese Buddhist cosmographies -- 15 Abductions angelic and alien: the changing cosmologies of otherworldly journeys -- 16 Astrophysics and religion -- 17 The epistemology of Flat Earth theory: evidentialism, suspicion, and the ethics of belief -- Part 4 Intersections of astronomy and religion: future directions -- 18 Astrobiology, astroethics, and astrotheology in conversation -- 19 Religious traditions and religious imagination in cosmos contexts.
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