Turning Stones into Bread: Developing Synergistic Science/Religion Approaches to the World Food Crisis: with Pat Bennett, “Turning Stones into Bread: Developing Synergistic Science/Religion Approaches to the World Food Crisis”; Varadaraja V. Raman, “Food: Its Many Aspects in Science, Religion, and Culture”; A. Whitney Sanford, “Why We Need Religion to Solve the World Food Crisis”; and Steven M. Finn, “Valuing Our Food: Minimizing Waste and Optimizing Resources.”
The Institute on Religion in an Age of Science (IRAS) has a long history of delivering conferences addressing topics of interest in the field of science and religion. The following papers from the 2013 summer conference on “The Scientific, Spiritual, and Moral Challenges in Solving the World Food Cr...
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Language: | English |
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2014
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Zygon
Year: 2014, Volume: 49, Issue: 4, Pages: 949-957 |
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J. Wentzel van Huyssteen
B religious paradigms B Connection B IRAS B Relationality B Ralph Wendell Burhoe B Synergism B global food crisis B food waste B religion dialogue / science |
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Summary: | The Institute on Religion in an Age of Science (IRAS) has a long history of delivering conferences addressing topics of interest in the field of science and religion. The following papers from the 2013 summer conference on “The Scientific, Spiritual, and Moral Challenges in Solving the World Food Crisis” are, in keeping with the eclectic nature of these conferences, very different in content and approach. Such differences underline the challenges of synergistically combining scientific and religious insights to increase understanding of global problems and their possible solutions. This in turn reflects deeper questions about the purpose and nature of the science/religion dialogue. These papers suggest various ways in which the two perspectives can be combined in the pursuit of building better understandings of food-related issues, as well as highlighting difficulties and limitations which need to be addressed if the fruits of such dialogue are to make a wider impact. As such they serve as useful pointers for how this type of science/religion interaction might be further developed and deployed. |
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ISSN: | 1467-9744 |
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/zygo.12136 |