This book addresses the complex, sometimes fraught, relationships between science and the world's faith communities. The authors, including professors and clinicians from major world religions and diverse countries have written penetrating and accessible scholarly accounts from the perspectives of major world religions, the history and philosophy of science, sociology and anthropology, astronomy and mathematics, philosophy and theology, and major medical specialties.

Many other books are skeptical, if not hostile, about the relationships between science and religion. This book is deliberately different: it provides exciting new ways of thinking about the synergies between science and religion.