Routledge Science and Religion Series
About the Book Series
Science and religion have often been thought to be at loggerheads but much contemporary work in this flourishing interdisciplinary field suggests this is far from the case. The Science and Religion Series presents exciting new work to advance interdisciplinary study, research and debate across key themes in science and religion. Contemporary issues in philosophy and theology are debated, as are prevailing cultural assumptions. The series enables leading international authors from a range of different disciplinary perspectives to apply the insights of the various sciences, theology, philosophy and history in order to look at the relations between the different disciplines and the connections that can be made between them. These accessible, stimulating new contributions to key topics across science and religion will appeal particularly to individual academics and researchers, graduates, postgraduates and upper-undergraduate students.
Ironic Thriving: Theological Paradox and Psychological Dissonance
1st Edition
By Michael Bräutigam
February 16, 2027
Ironic Thriving brings theology into dialogue with psychological science, and with cognitive dissonance theory in particular, to investigate the formative impact of theological tension. The book argues that theological paradoxes concerning the human self evoke cognitive dissonance. Yet this ...
Natural Selection, Teleology, and Theism: Toward a Theology of Evolution
1st Edition
By Seth P. Hart
January 19, 2027
This book argues that the traditional understanding of natural selection contains an underlying teleology and, when read in dialogue with classical theism, allows for a constructive theological interpretation of evolutionary processes. By drawing out this implicit teleology, it develops an ...
Design Discourse in Abrahamic Traditions: History, Metaphysics, and Science
1st Edition
Edited
By E.V.R. Kojonen, Shoaib A. Malik
May 22, 2026
Design Discourse in Abrahamic Traditions reconnects discussion of design arguments to its Jewish, Christian, and Muslim history. The ancient idea that there is evidence of purpose in nature remains one of the most debated topics in science and religion, but also one with great potential for ...
Maximus the Confessor and Evolutionary Biology: The Phylogenetic Logoi
1st Edition
By Andrew P. Jackson
May 22, 2026
This book brings Maximus the Confessor’s logoi doctrine into dialogue with modern-day evolutionary biology. It explores the extent to which the logoi, as described by Maximus, exhibit features that are concordant with evolution before going on to consider more discordant aspects that cannot be ...
Miracles in Said Nursi and Thomas Aquinas: Non-Noninterventionist Approaches to Divine Action and the Sciences
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By Edmund Michael Lazzari
May 22, 2026
In order to preserve contemporary understandings of the sciences, many figures of the Divine Action Project (DAP) held that God could never violate or suspend a law of nature, causing the marginalization of miracles from scholarly theology–science dialogue. In the first substantive entry of ...
New Frontiers in Islam and Evolution: Scriptures, Scholars, and Societies
1st Edition
Edited
By Shoaib A. Malik, David Solomon Jalajel
May 22, 2026
This edited volume offers an incisive exploration of the intersection between Islam and evolutionary theory – a topic that remains a focal point of vigorous academic debate and inquiry. Covering a broad spectrum of approaches, this work delves into contemporary scholarship, Islamic intellectual ...
The Digitalised Image of God: Artificial Intelligence, Liturgy, and Ethics
1st Edition
By Ximian Xu
May 22, 2026
This book focuses on the idea of the imago Dei to engaging theologically with artificial intelligence (AI). It reflects on how enormous progress in the development of AI has raised some challenges to Christian theology. Questions explored include: is AI created in the imago Dei? If so, does AI ...
Seven Classical Perspectives for Islam and Science
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By Shoaib A. Malik
April 15, 2026
This book examines how seven major classical Islamic thinkers, from Abū Manṣūr al-Māturīdī to Taqī al-Dīn Ibn Taymiyya, developed distinctive metaphysical and theological worldviews that continue to shape how Muslims might engage questions of science and religion today. Each thinker represents a ...
Exemplars, Imitation, and Character Formation: A Philosophical, Psychological, and Christian Inquiry
1st Edition
By Eric Yang
December 26, 2025
This volume examines the role and relevance of exemplars and the practice of imitation in character development and formation. While the role of exemplars and imitation in spiritual and moral formation has been an integral part of many religious and wisdom traditions, in recent times there has been...
Julian of Norwich and the Ecological Crisis: Restoring Porosity
1st Edition
By Claire Gilbert
December 26, 2025
This book presents ecological insights drawn from a reading of Julian of Norwich, considering how effectively she can help us in our current plight. The argument is that to address the ecological crisis with the mindset that created it will only cause more problems, and that to really undo the harm...
Perspectives on Spiritual Intelligence
1st Edition
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By Marius Dorobantu, Fraser Watts
December 26, 2025
The topic of intelligence involves questions that cut deep into ultimate concerns and human identity, and the study of intelligence is an ideal ground for dialogue between science and religion. This volume investigates the notion of spiritual intelligence from a variety of perspectives, bringing ...
Progress in Theology: Does the Queen of the Sciences Advance?
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By Gijsbert van den Brink, Rik Peels, Bethany Sollereder
December 26, 2025
This book explores the intriguing relationship between theology, science, and the ideal of progress from a variety of perspectives. While seriously discussing the obstacles and pitfalls related to the notion of progress in theology, it argues that there are in fact many different kinds of ...