Intersections of religion and astronomy
In: Routledge science and religion series
General introduction / Aaron Ricker -- Religion and cosmology / John T. Fitzgerald -- Calling down the spirits in the sky : Blackfoot astronomy and sense of the sacred / Eldon Yellowhorn -- To reverently bestow the seasons : calendrical narratives in early China and Rome / Rebecca Robinson -- Celestial deities in the flat-earth Buddhist cosmos and astrology / Jeffrey Kotyk -- Early Islamic encounters with the rain stars of pre-Islamic Arabian astronomy / Danielle Adams -- Cosmology and religious culture in Jewish and Byzantine art / Shulamit Laderman -- In search of the stars of David : situating the Rabbinic Jewish astronomical tradition in world cultural astronomy scholarship / Andrea D. Lobel -- The cosmos of a Big God : Brahe, Kepler, Bruno and the sizes of the stars in a Copernican universe / Christopher M. Graney -- Apocalyptic themes in Isaac Newton's astronomical physics / Stephen D. Snobelen -- Georges Lemaître's dual life in cosmology and theology / Simon Mitton and Rodney D. Holder -- Albert Einstein's cosmic religion / Nicholas Campion -- Market predictions : astrology in modern India / Parna Sengupta -- Faster than the speed of NASA : the tenth planet, prophecy and the universalization of a Gujarati village goddess / Darry Dinnell -- Radiance and darkness : Japanese Buddhist cosmographies / Melissa Anne-Marie Curley -- Abductions angelic and alien : the changing cosmologies of otherworldly journeys / James F. McGrath -- Astrophysics and religion / Arnold O. Benz -- The epistemology of Flat Earth theory : evidentialism, suspicion, and the ethics of belief / Jennifer Guyver -- Astrobiology, astroethics, and astrotheology in conversation / Grace Wolf-Chase -- Religious traditions and religious imagination in cosmos contexts / John Hart -- Wonder brokers : scientific wonder as spiritual authority in the Cosmos series (1980 and 2014) / Aaron Ricker -- Conclusion / Darry Dinnell.