Scientific Models for Religious Knowledge: Are the Scientific Study of Religion and a Religious Epistemology Compatible?

Most comparisons of science and religion are really comparisons of science and Christianity, or science and Islam, and so forth. In Scientific Models for Religious Knowledge, the author aims to get outside typical polarized debates between traditional, a priori theism and radical, scientistic naturalism. Instead, a new science and religion compatibility system–between a scientific study of religion and a religious epistemology–is our new, elusive problem. Moreover, we shall look at a comparison and contrast of modern science with the simple deference of the human mind to the actions of culturally postulated superhuman agents. This book pays critical attention to the contributions of scholars in the philosophy of religion, the philosophy of science, and the scientific study of religion. Scientific Models for Religious Knowledge is useful for readers looking to expand their learning in the philosophies of science and religion as these subjects are taught and analyzed in modern research universities. Andrew Ralls Woodward holds a Doctor of Theology in the philosophy of science and religion from the University of Toronto and the University of Trinity College (conjoint). He is the author of Adventure in Human Knowledges and Beliefs (2014).