Asian Religions, Technology and Science

Over the past five decades, the field of religion-and-science scholarship has experienced a considerable expansion. This volume explores the historical and contemporary perspectives of the relationship between religion, technology and science with a focus on South and East Asia. These three areas ar...

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Main Author: Keul, István (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Hoboken Taylor and Francis 2015
In:Year: 2015
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Asia / Religion / Natural sciences / Technics
Further subjects:B Conference program 2012 (Trondheim)
B Electronic books
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505 8 0 |a Cover; Half Title ; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Asian religions, technology and science; Notes; References; Part I: Asian religions and science; 1. "True facts of the world": media of scientific space and the transformations of cosmo geography in nineteenth-century Buddhist-Christian encounters; Introduction; Transformations of cosmo- geographical space in nineteenth- century Theravada-Buddhist Modernism and the early Buddhist-Christian 
505 8 0 |a Maps and globes: Buddhist Modernism in nineteenth-century Siam and the media of scientific spaceMedia of scientific space as immutable mobiles: the circulation of scientific facts and the nineteenth-century Buddhist Christia debates in Ceylon; Conclusion; Notes; References; 2. An illusion of conciliation: religion and science in Debendranath and Rabindranath Tagore; Introduction; Debendranath's natural theology; Rabindranath's creative evolutionism; Father, son, and scientistic spirit; The illusory conciliation of science and religion in the Tagorean mode; Notes; References 
505 8 0 |a 3. Vedic science, modern science and reasonIntroduction; Introduction: Vedic science; Stages in ISKCON's thinking about science; The Bhaktivedanta Institute and T.D. Singh (His Holiness Bhaktisvarupa Damodara Swami); Prophets facing backwards; Reflections: puzzles and perplexities; Notes; References and further reading; 4. Is the Earth round? Traditional cosmography and modern science in Jainism; Introduction; Jain cosmography; The academization and scientization of Jainism; Jambudweep: The Digambar Jain Institute of Cosmographic Research; Traditional cosmography meets modern science 
505 8 0 |a ConclusionNotes; References; 5. On 'science' in 'The Science of Happiness': the Japanese new religious movement Ko-fuku no kagaku, occult 'science' and 'spiritual technology'; Introduction; On the formation of the main concepts of Kōfuku no kagaku and its religio- historical setting; The official title of the movement and its background; 'Science'; Major fields of 'scientific' interests and the 'spiritual technology'; Conclusion; Notes; References; 6. The synthesis of religious and medical healing rituals in the Song; Introduction; Religious movements in the Song; Song exorcism rituals 
505 8 0 |a Medical reforms in the Song and YuanThe somatisation of possession in Song medical literature and examinations; Synthesizing religious and medical rituals in the Song and Yuan; Conclusion; Acknowledgement; Notes; References; Further reading; 7. Medical treatments described in the ritual texts of Kerala: interaction between religion and science; Introduction; The Vedas and their insights into scientific thinking; Does the Indian system of medicine, or Āyurveda, give importance to rituals during treatments?; Medical treatment dealt with in the early tantra manuals 
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