Religions and Extraterrestrial Life How Will We Deal With It? /

• Main Author: Weintraub, David A. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Springer Praxis Books
• Subjects: Religion.; Religion > Philosophy.; Space sciences.; Astrobiology.; Astronomy.; Religious Studies.; Religious Studies, general.; Popular Science in Astronomy.; Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences.; Philosophy of Religion.

In the twenty-first century, the debate about life on other worlds is quickly changing from the realm of speculation to the domain of hard science. Within a few years, as a consequence of the rapid discovery by astronomers of planets around other stars, astronomers very likely will have discovered c...

Table of Contents:

• Part I: Discovering Extrasolar Planets
• Once Upon a Time
• Pluralism Through Western History
• The Discovery of the Century
• Detecting Exoplanets
• Are Angels Extraterrestrials?
• Part II: Major Religions of the World and Extraterrestrial Life
• Judaism
• Setting the Stage for Modern Christianity
• Roman Catholicism
• Orthodox Christianity
• The Church of England and the Anglican Communion
• Mainline Protestant Christianity
• Evangelical and Fundamentalist Christianity
• From Christian Roots
• Mormonism
• Islam
• Hinduism
• Buddhism
• Jainism
• Sikhism
• Bahá’í Faith
• Are We Ready?
• Appendix: The Exoplanets Revealed by the Kepler Mission Through 2013.