RT Article
T1 Turning Stones into Bread: Developing Synergistic Science/Religion Approaches to the World Food Crisis: with Pat Bennett, “Turning Stones into Bread: Developing Synergistic Science/Religion Approaches to the World Food Crisis”; Varadaraja V. Raman, “Food: Its Many Aspects in Science, Religion, and Culture”; A. Whitney Sanford, “Why We Need Religion to Solve the World Food Crisis”; and Steven M. Finn, “Valuing Our Food: Minimizing Waste and Optimizing Resources.”
JF Zygon
VO 49
IS 4
SP 949
OP 957
A1 Bennett, Pat
LA English
PB Wiley-Blackwell
YR 2014
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1827965290
AB The Institute on Religion in an Age of Science (IRAS) has a long history of delivering conferences addressing topics of interest in the field of science and religion. The following papers from the 2013 summer conference on “The Scientific, Spiritual, and Moral Challenges in Solving the World Food Crisis” are, in keeping with the eclectic nature of these conferences, very different in content and approach. Such differences underline the challenges of synergistically combining scientific and religious insights to increase understanding of global problems and their possible solutions. This in turn reflects deeper questions about the purpose and nature of the science/religion dialogue. These papers suggest various ways in which the two perspectives can be combined in the pursuit of building better understandings of food-related issues, as well as highlighting difficulties and limitations which need to be addressed if the fruits of such dialogue are to make a wider impact. As such they serve as useful pointers for how this type of science/religion interaction might be further developed and deployed.
K1 J. Wentzel van Huyssteen
K1 Synergism
K1 science/religion dialogue
K1 religious paradigms
K1 Relationality
K1 IRAS
K1 global food crisis
K1 food waste
K1 Connection
K1 Ralph Wendell Burhoe
DO 10.1111/zygo.12136