Intersections of religion and astronomy / edited by Aaron Ricker, Christopher J. Corbally and Darry Dinnell.

General introduction / Aaron Ricker -- Religion and cosmology / John T. Fitzgerald -- Calling down the spirits in the sky : Blackfoot astronomy and sense of the sacred / Eldon Yellowhorn -- To reverently bestow the seasons : calendrical narratives in early China and Rome / Rebecca Robinson -- Celestial deities in the flat-earth Buddhist cosmos and astrology / Jeffrey Kotyk -- Early Islamic encounters with the rain stars of pre-Islamic Arabian astronomy / Danielle Adams -- Cosmology and religious culture in Jewish and Byzantine art / Shulamit Laderman -- In search of the stars of David : situating the Rabbinic Jewish astronomical tradition in world cultural astronomy scholarship / Andrea D. Lobel -- The cosmos of a Big God : Brahe, Kepler, Bruno and the sizes of the stars in a Copernican universe / Christopher M. Graney -- Apocalyptic themes in Isaac Newton's astronomical physics / Stephen D. Snobelen -- Georges Lemaître's dual life in cosmology and theology / Simon Mitton and Rodney D. Holder -- Albert Einstein's cosmic religion / Nicholas Campion -- Market predictions : astrology in modern India / Parna Sengupta -- Faster than the speed of NASA : the tenth planet, prophecy and the universalization of a Gujarati village goddess / Darry Dinnell -- Radiance and darkness : Japanese Buddhist cosmographies / Melissa Anne-Marie Curley -- Abductions angelic and alien : the changing cosmologies of otherworldly journeys / James F. McGrath -- Astrophysics and religion / Arnold O. Benz -- The epistemology of Flat Earth theory : evidentialism, suspicion, and the ethics of belief / Jennifer Guyver -- Astrobiology, astroethics, and astrotheology in conversation / Grace Wolf-Chase -- Religious traditions and religious imagination in cosmos contexts / John Hart -- Wonder brokers : scientific wonder as spiritual authority in the Cosmos series (1980 and 2014) / Aaron Ricker -- Conclusion / Darry Dinnell.

"This volume examines the way in which cultural ideas about "the heavens" shape religious ideas and are shaped by them in return. Our approaches to cosmology have a profound effect on the way in which we each deal with religious questions and participate in the imaginative work of public and private world-building. Employing an interdisciplinary team of international scholars, each chapter shows how religion and cosmology interrelate and matter for real people. Historical and contemporary case studies are included to demonstrate the lived reality of a variety of faith traditions and their interactions with the cosmos. This breadth of scope allows readers to get a unique overview of how religion, science and our view of space have, and will continue to, impact our worldviews. Offering a comprehensive exploration of humanity and its relationship with cosmology, this book will be an important reference for scholars of Religion and Science, Religion and Culture, Interreligious Dialogue and Theology, as well as those interested in Science and Culture and Public Education"-- Provided by publisher.

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