Science and Religion v Spirituality and Health v Character Development v Business and Spirituality
November 2001
Issue 5
Nearly 400 critically acclaimed books in fields related to science and religion are now available in one location: the Science and Religion Bookstore at www.templetonpress.org (click on Science and Religion Bookstore). In development for the past year, the site has just opened, offering books from 150 publishers and links to the latest news and information on science and religion topics. The online bookstore is designed to be a full-service resource for scholars, researchers, libraries, and general readers interested in this growing area of study.
Visitors to the Science and Religion Bookstore can search by author, title, publisher, or category. They can purchase books (most are available at a ten percent discount), conduct research, access bibliographies, submit suggestions for additional books and information on upcoming events, link to hundreds of related sites, and more. Included are categories such as astronomy; physical sciences, including physics and chemistry; mathematics, including chaos and complexity; biological sciences, including bioethics; religion and science; fiction, including poetry and science fiction; spirituality and health; and forgiveness and reconciliation.
The online bookstore will be updated continually with new books as they are published, and other books nominated by publishers or others. Coming soon will be an events calendar, provided by Research News, a monthly periodical that services the science and religion community. The calendar will offer details on upcoming lectures, symposiums, and conferences.
The vibrant images captured by our most advanced telescopes have been juxtaposed with the words of scientists, poets, and theologians in The Hand of God: Thoughts and Images Reflecting the Spirit of the Universe, edited by Michael Reagan with an introduction by Sharon Begley.
Begley, award-winning science writer for Newsweek, presents a brief overview of the history of science and religion—the nearly 2,000 years when science and religion shared a common quest for understanding, leading up to the 20th century.
The awe-inspiring explosions of color and images presented by the photographs in The Hand of God add to the sense that our world could not have been an arbitrary occurrence.
Special Offer: Purchase a copy of The Hand of God for $15.95 and receive a copy of The Humble Approach absolutely free. A $5.00 shipping and handling cost applies to make a combined price of $20.95. Refer to Code RN13.
Words of Gratitude for Mind, Body, and Soul by Robert A. Emmons and Joanna Hill, with an Introduction by Brother David Steindl-Rast offers words of encouragement and guidance, proverbs, and prayers, interspersed with highlights of recent psychological research measuring the effects of gratitude.
Why is it good to feel gratitude? Are there things we can do to pull ourselves out of a state of anger and loss? Can we choose gratitude? What are the hindrances to gratitude?
“Gratitude is…more than a feeling, a virtue, or an experience; gratitude emerges as an attitude we can freely choose in order to create a better life for ourselves and for others,” explains Brother David Steindl-Rast. “The Nigerian Hausa put it this way: Give thanks for a little and you will find a lot.” There is a paradoxical aspect to gratitude, Emmons and Hill point out: the more grateful we are, the more reasons we have to be grateful.
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The current best sellers for Templeton Foundation Press are listed below. The statistics are an accumulation of both domestic and foreign sales and are updated monthly.
Professor Artigas has raised the level of the contemporary debate on the relations between science and religion and provided a sure guide to their complexities. He seems to have read almost every book on the subject, and gives judicious and sympathetic accounts even of views he does not share. As a scientist himself, he does full justice to the value of science and to the subtleties of the scientific method. Whether one agrees with him or not, this is a book that cannot be ignored by anyone interested in these questions.
This handy resource will spur you on to living a life of unimpeded thankfulness. The authors present a rounded overview of this spiritual practice that is heralded in the sacred writings, prayers, and teachings of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
The grand master of gratitude, Brother David Steindl-Rast, provides a sparkling introduction where he defines gratitude as “an attitude we can freely choose in order to create a better life for ourselves and for others.” The Nigerian Hausa put it this way: “Give thanks for a little and you will find a lot.” Read this little book with this attitude and you will find in it an abundance of gifts and blessings!”
—Spirituality and Health
This is a collection of 48 one-thousand-word essays by specialists in the general field of science and religion. Most of the authors are American or British scientists and Christian, though other faiths are represented. Related essays are grouped in nine sections each with an introductory summary. Inevitably, there is some repetition and the wide range of topics—genetic engineering, the limits of science, quantum physics, Darwinism for example—and restricted space, mean limited depth. The great majority of contributions are, however, models of lucid and stimulating writing. A few are rather fanciful. The book is not difficult to read; there is some merit in being served with one or two ideas expressed economically by writers whom many would find difficult in a different format. Rather than a substantial main course, this is more like a high quality hors d’oeuvre, which nonetheless affirms the potential of science to inform religious understanding—and of religion to illuminate the deeper questions sometimes raised by science.
–The Reader
Autumn, 2001 Volume 98 No. 3
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