Science, Religion, and the Human Experience

Contents

Contributors, xi

1. Introduction: Rethinking Science and Religion, 3
   James D. Proctor

PART I. Theory

2. “Thou Shall Not Freeze-Frame,” or, How Not to Misunderstand
   the Science and Religion Debate, 27
   Bruno Latour


3. Modernity and the Mystical: Technoscience, Religion, and
   Human Self-Creation, 49
   Thomas A. Carlson


4. The Depths and Shallows of Experience, 71
   Hilary Putnam


5. In We Trust: Science, Religion, and Authority, 87
   James D. Proctor

PART II. Cosmos

6. Science, Religion, Metaphor, and History, 111
   Jeffrey Burton Russell


7. Kabbalah and Contemporary Cosmology: Discovering the
   Resonances, 129
   Daniel C. Matt