The International Society for Science & Religion has created a foundational library of central texts in the field of science & religion. This library consists of 250 books spanning all important areas and disciplines as well as key international and intercultural voices.
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"Education" (1890), a stained glass window by Louis Comfort Tiffany and Tiffany Studios, located in Linsly-Chittenden Hall at Yale University. It depicts Science (personified by Devotion, Labor, Truth, Research and Intuition) and Religion (personified by Purity, Faith, Hope, Reverence and Inspiration) in harmony, presided over by the central personification of "Light·Love·Life".
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A Brief Introduction to Islamic Philosophy
by Oliver Leaman
A Feminist Cosmology: Ecology, Solidarity and Metaphysics
by Nancy Howell
A Fine-Tuned Universe: The Quest for God in Science and Theology
by Alister E. McGrath
A New Climate for Theology: God, the World and Global Warming
by Sallie McFague
Adventures in the Spirit: New Forays in Philosophical Theology
by Philip Clayton ; edited by Zachary Simpson
Adventures of Ideas
by Alfred North Whitehead
All That Is: A Naturalistic Faith for the Twenty-First Century
by Arthur R. Peacocke ; edited by Philip Clayton
Alone in the World? Human Uniqueness in Science and Theology (Gifford Lectures)
by J. Wentzel van Huyssteen
Altruism and Altruistic Love: Science, Philosophy and Religion in Dialogue
edited by Stephen G. Post, Lynn G. Underwood, Jeffrey P. Schloss, William B. Hurlbut
An Illusion of Harmony: Science and Religion in Islam
by Taner Edis
Back to Darwin: A Richer Account of Evolution
edited by John B. Cobb
Brave New Judaism: When Science and Scripture Collide
by Miryam Z. Wahrman
Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
by Daniel C. Dennett
Buddhism and Ecology: The Interconnection of Dharma and Deeds
edited by Mary Evelyn Tucker, Duncan Ryuken Williams
Buddhism and Science Breaking New Ground
edited by B.A. Wallace
Buddhism and Science: A Guide for the Perplexed (Buddhism and Modernity)
by Donald S. Lopez
Can We Be Sure About Anything? Science, Faith and Postmodernism
edited by Denis R. Alexander
Changing Minds: Mind, Consciousness and Identity in Patanjali's Yoga-sutra and Cognitive Neuroscience
by Michele Marie Desmarais
Chaos and Complexity: Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action
edited by Robert John Russell, Nancey Murphy, Arthur R. Peacocke
Christianity and Ecology: Seeking the Well Being of Earth and Humans
edited by Dieter T. Hessel, Rosemary Radford Ruether
Confucianism and Ecology: The Interrelation of Heaven, Earth and Humans
edited by Mary Evelyn Tucker, John Berthrong
Consciousness Studies: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
by K. Ramakrishna Rao
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
by Edward Osborne Wilson
Creative Tension: Essays on Science and Religion
by Michael Heller
Dancing with the Sacred: Evolution, Ecology and God
by Karl Peters
Daoism and Ecology: Ways within a Cosmic Landscape
edited by N.J. Girardot, James Miller, Liu Xiaogan
Darwin on Evolution: The Development of the Theory of Natural Selection
by Charles Darwin ; edited by Thomas F. Glick, David Kohn
Darwin's Cathedral: Evolution, Religion and the Nature of Society
by David Sloan Wilson
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
by Daniel C. Dennett
Darwin's Gift to Science and Religion
by Francisco Ayala
Debating Design: From Darwin to DNA
edited by William A. Dembski, Michael Ruse
Deep Ecology and World Religions: New Essays on Sacred Ground
edited by David L. Barnhill, Roger S. Gottlieb
Deeper than Darwin: The Prospect for Religion in the Age of Evolution
by John F. Haught
Design and Destiny: Jewish and Christian Perspectives on Human Germline Modification
edited by Ronald Cole-Turner
Design and Disorder: Perspectives from Science and Theology
edited by Niels Gregersen, Ulf Gorman
Did My Neurons Make Me Do It?: Philosophical and Neurobiological Perspectives on Moral Responsibility and Free Will
by Nancey Murphy, Warren S. Brown
Ecology at the Heart of Faith
by Denis Edwards
Einstein and Religion: Physics and Theology
by Max Jammer
Encyclopedia of Science and Religion (MacMillan Reference USA) - Volumes 1 and 2
edited by J. Wentzel van Huyssteen, Nancy R. Howell, Niels Henrik Gregersen, Wesley J. Wildman
Environmental Stewardship: Critical Perspectives - Past and Present
edited by R. J. Berry
Ethics in an Age of Technology (The Gifford Lectures 1989-1991 Vol. 2)
by Ian G. Barbour
Evangelicals and Science in Historical Perspective
edited by David N. Livingstone, D.G. Hart, Mark A. Noll
Evolution and Emergence: Systems, Organisms, Persons
edited by Nancey Murphy, William R. Stoeger
Evolution and Ethics: Human Morality in Biological and Religious Perspective
edited by Philip Clayton, Jeffrey Schloss
Evolution vs. Creationism: An Introduction
by Eugenie C. Scott
Evolutionary and Molecular Biology: Scientific Perspectives on Divine Actions
edited by Robert John Russell, William R. Stoeger, Francisco J. Ayala
Evolutionary Humanism
by Julian Huxley
Exploring Reality: The Intertwining of Science and Religion
by John C. Polkinghorne
Fitness of the Cosmos for Life: Biochemistry and Fine-Tuning
edited by John D. Barrow, Simon Conway Morris, Stephen J. Freeland, Charles L. Harper
For the Common Good: Redirecting the Economy toward Community, the Environment and a Sustainable Future
by Herman E. Daly, John B. Cobb
Galileo Goes to Jail and other Myths about Science and Religion
by Ronald L. Numbers
Genes, Genesis and God: Values and Their Origins In Natural and Human History
by Holmes Rolston III
Genetics and Christian Ethics
by Celia Deane-Drummond
Global Perspectives on Science and Spirituality
edited by Pranab Das
God and Design: The Teleological Argument and Modern Science
by Neil A. Manson
God and Nature: Historical Essays on the Encounter between Christianity and Science
edited by David C. Lindberg, Ronald L. Numbers
God in Creation
by Jurgen Moltmann
God, Chance and Necessity
by Keith Ward
God, Chance and Purpose: Can God Have It Both Ways?
by David J. Bartholomew
God, Humanity and the Cosmos: A Textbook in Science and Religion
edited by Christopher Southgate
God, Life and the Cosmos: Christian and Islamic Perspectives
edited by Ted Peters, Muzaffar Iqbal, Syed Nomanul Haq
Good Natured: Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals
by Frans de Waal
Handbook of Bioethics and Religion
edited by David E. Guinn
Hinduism and Ecology: The Intersection of Earth, Sky and Water
edited by Christopher Key Chapple, Mary Evelyn Tucker
In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity
by Daniel J Kevles
In Whom We Live and Move and Have Our Being: Panentheistic Reflections on God's Presence in a Scientific World
edited by Philip Clayton, Arthur R. Peacocke
Is Nature Enough?: Meaning and Truth in the Age of Science
by John F. Haught
Is Nature Ever Evil?: Religion, Science and Value
edited by Willem B. Drees
Islam and Ecology: A Bestowed Trust
edited by Richard C. Foltz, Frederick M. Denny, Azizan Baharuddin
Jainism and Ecology: Nonviolence in the Web of Life
edited by Christopher Key Chapple
Jewish Faith and Modern Science: On the Death and Rebirth of Jewish Philosophy
by Norbert M. Samuelson
Jewish Tradition and the Challenge of Darwinism
edited by Geoffrey Cantor, Marc Swetlitz
Judaism and Ecology: Created World and Revealed Word, Religions of the World and Ecology
edited by Hava Tirosh-Samuelson
Judeo-Christian Perspectives on Psychology: Human Nature, Motivation and Change
edited by William R. Miller, Harold D. Delaney
Life Evolving: Molecules, Mind, and Meaning
by Christian de Duve
Life's Solution - Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe
by Simon Conway Morris
Mankind Evolving: The Evolution of the Human Species
by Theodosius Dobzhansky
Many Worlds: the New Universe, Extraterrestrial Life and the Theological Implications
edited by Steven J. Dick
Matters of Life and Death: A Jewish Approach to Modern Medical Ethics
by Elliot N. Dorff
Mind and Emergence: From Quantum to Consciousness
by Philip Clayton
Mind in the Balance: Meditation in Science, Buddhism and Christianity
by B. Alan Wallace
Minds and Gods: The Cognitive Foundations of Religion
by Todd Tremlin
Naturalism and Religion
by Kai Nielsen
Nature, Reality and the Sacred: Nexus of Science and Religion
by Langdon Gilkey
Neuroscience and the Person (Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action)
edited by Robert John Russell, Nancey Murphy, Theo C. Meyering, Michael A. Arbib
Omnipotence and Other Theological Mistakes
by Charles Hartshorne
On Physics and Philosophy
by Bernard d'Espagnat
On Space and Time
edited by Shahn Majid
On the Moral Nature of the Universe: Theology, Cosmology, and Ethics
by Nancey Murphy, George F. R. Ellis
One World: The Interaction of Science and Theology
by John C. Polkinghorne
Paths from Science towards God: The End of All Our Exploring
by Arthur R. Peacocke
Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy
by Michael Polanyi
Philosophical Concepts in Physics
by James Cushing
Physics and Cosmology: Scientific Perspectives on the Problem of Natural Evil
edited by Nancey Murphy, Robert John Russell, William R. Stoeger
Playing God?: Genetic Determinism and Human Freedom
by Ted Peters
Preaching Eugenics: Religious Leaders and the American Eugenics Movement
by Christine Rosen
Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved
by Frans de Waal ; edited by Stephen Macedo, Josiah Ober
Quantum Cosmology and the Laws of Nature: Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action
edited by Robert John Russell, Nancey Murphy, Christopher J. Isham
Rationality and Religion: Does Faith Need Reason?
by Roger Trigg
Rationality and Science: Can Science Explain Everything?
by Roger Trigg
Reason, Faith and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate
by Terry Eagleton
Reconstructing Nature: The Engagement of Science and Religion
by John Hedley Brooke, Geoffrey Cantor
Reenchantment without Supernaturalism: A Process Philosophy of Religion
by David Ray Griffin
Reinventing Eden: The Fate of Nature in Western Culture
by Carolyn Merchant
Reinventing the Sacred: A New View of Science, Reason and Religion
by Stuart A. Kauffman
Religion and Creation
by Keith Ward
Religion and Nothingness
by Keiji Nishitani
Religion and Science
by Bertrand Russell, Michael Ruse (intro)
Religion and Science: Historical and Contemporary Issues
by Ian G. Barbour
Religion and the Order of Nature
by Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Religion and the Rise of Modern Science
by R. Hooykaas
Religion, Anthropology, and Cognitive Science: Challenges for the Anthropology of Religion
edited by Harvey Whitehouse, James Laidlaw
Religion, Science and Naturalism
by Willem B. Drees
Religion, Theology and the Human Sciences
by Richard H. Roberts
Religious Naturalism Today: The Rebirth of a Forgotten Alternative
by Jerome A. Stone
Religious Thought and the Modern Psychologies: A Critical Conversation in the Theology of Culture
by Don S. Browning, Terry Cooper
Retrying Galileo 1633-1992
by Maurice A. Finocchiaro
Science and Beyond: Cosmology, Consciousness and Technology in the Indic Traditions
edited by Sangeetha Menon, B. V. Sreekantan, Anindya Sinha, Philip Clayton
Science and Civilization In Islam
by Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Science and Human Values
by Jacob Bronowski
Science and Providence: God's Interaction with the World
by John C. Polkinghorne
Science and Religion: A Critical Survey
by Holmes Rolston
Science and Religion: A Very Short Introduction
by Thomas Dixon
Science and Religious Anthropology
by Wesley J. Wildman
Science and the Indian Tradition: When Einstein Met Tagore
by David L. Gosling
Science and the Modern World
by Alfred North Whitehead
Science in Theistic Contexts: Cognitive Dimensions: v. 16 (Osiris)
edited by John Hedley Brooke, Margaret J. Osler, Jitse M. van der Meer
Science, Religion, and Society: An Encyclopedia of History, Culture and Controversy - Volumes 1 and 2
edited by Arri Eisen, Gary Laderman
Science, Spirituality and the Modernization of India
edited by Makarand Paranjape
The Anthropic Cosmological Principle
by John D. Barrow, Frank J. Tipler
The Believing Primate
edited by Jeffrey Schloss, Michael Murray
The Bible, Protestantism and the Rise of Natural Science
by Peter Harrison
The Big Questions in Science and Religion
by Keith Ward
The Body of God: An Ecological Theology
by Sallie McFague
The Cambridge Companion to the Origin of Species
edited by Michael Ruse, Robert J. Richards
The Cambridge Companion to the Philosophy of Biology
edited by David L. Hull, Michael Ruse
The Church and Galileo
edited by Ernan McMullin
The Creationists: From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design
by Ronald L. Numbers
The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology and the Scientific Revolution
by Carolyn Merchant
The Essential Mary Midgley
by Mary Midgley ; edited by David Midgley
The Eye of Heaven: Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler
by Owen Gingerich
The Faith of Scientists: In Their Own Words
edited by Nancy K. Frankenberry
The Fall of Man and the Foundations of Science
by Peter Harrison
The History and Philosophy of Islamic Science
by Osman Bakar
The Holy Qur'an and the Sciences of Nature
by Mehdi Golshani
The Human Factor: Evolution, Culture and Religion
by Philip Hefner
The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief
by Francis S. Collins
The Liberation of Life: From the Cell to the Community
by Charles Birch, John B. Cobb
The Logic of Scientific Discovery
by Karl Popper
The Mind of God: Science and the Search for Ultimate Meaning
by Paul Davies
The Mystical Mind: Probing the Biology of Religious Experience
by Eugene G. D'Aquili, Andrew B. Newberg
The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Science
edited by Philip Clayton, Zachary Simpson
The Philosophy of Biology
edited by Michael Ruse
The Quantum and the Lotus: A Journey to the Frontiers Where Science and Buddhism Meet
by Matthieu Ricard, Trinh Xuan Thuan
The Re-Emergence of Emergence: The Emergentist Hypothesis from Science to Religion
edited by Philip Clayton, Paul Davies
The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Religion
edited by Chad Meister, Paul Copan
The Sacred Depths of Nature
by Ursula Goodenough
The Science of God: An Introduction to Scientific Theology
by Alister E. McGrath
The Selfish Gene
by Richard Dawkins
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
by Thomas S. Kuhn
The Symbolic Species: The Co-Evolution of Language and the Brain
by Terrence W. Deacon
The Tangled Wing: Biological Constraints on the Human Spirit
by Melvin Konner
The Temptations of Evolutionary Ethics
by Paul Lawrence Farber
The Two Cultures
by C. P. Snow
The Universe Story
by Brian Swimme, Thomas Berry
The Varieties of Religious Experience
by William James
The Way into Judaism and the Environment
by Jeremy Benstein
The Work of Love: Creation as Kenosis
edited by John C. Polkinghorne, Michael Welker
Theology and Psychology
by Fraser N. Watts
Theology for a Scientific Age: Being and Becoming - Natural, Divine and Human
by Arthur R. Peacocke
This Sacred Earth
by Roger Gottlieb
Time and Eternity: The Question of Time in Church, Science and Theology
by Antje Jackelen
Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time
by Stephen Jay Gould
Toward a Theology of Nature: Essays on Science and Faith
by Wolfhart Pannenberg ; edited by Ted Peters
Tower of Babel: The Evidence against the New Creationism
by Robert T. Pennock
Truth and Tension in Science and Religion
by Varadaraja V. Raman
Visions of Compassion: Western Scientists and Tibetan Buddhists Examine Human Nature
edited by Richard J. Davidson, Anne Harrington
Wayfarers in the Cosmos: The Human Quest for Meaning
by George V. Coyne, Alessandro Omizzolo
Whatever Happened to the Soul: Scientific and Theological Portraits of Human Nature (Theology and the Sciences)
edited by Warren S. Brown, Nancey Murphy, H. Newton Maloney
When Species Meet
by Donna J. Haraway
Why the Science and Religion Dialogue Matters: Voices from the International Society of Science and Religion
edited by Fraser N. Watts, Kevin Dutton
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