These essays explore the dialogue between science and religion. Contributors address ideas on the evolution of matter, life and mind; the evolution of language and brain; consciousness and creativity; religion as a moral framework; science and the Qur'an; and religion and enviromental ethics.

pt. I. The universe study. The new story of the cosmos / Eric Carlson --
Life in our universe and others / Martin Rees --
Cosmochemistry and the origin of life / Clifford N. Matthews --
The conscious universe / Elisabet Sahtouris --
The probability of human origins / Matt Cartmill --
From ape-man to wise-man / Ronald J. Clarke --
A century of surprises in human evolution / Philip V. Tobias --
How I gave up the ghost and learned to love evolution / Terrence Deacon --
How close is science to understanding consciousness? / George Johnson --
Cosmology and religion / George F.R. Ellis --
Space and spirit / Margaret Wertheim --
Images of enlightenment : slanted truths / Clifford N. Matthews --
pt. II. The emerging alliance of religion and ecology. Beyond the Enlightenment mentality / Tu Weiming --
Living in a universe native cosmologies and the environment / John A. Grim --
Judaism and the ecological crisis / Mark X. Jacobs --
Christianity and ecological awareness / Stephen Bede Scharper --
Jainism and ecology / Christopher Key Chapple --
Green Buddhism / Stephanie Kaza --
Confucian ethics and the ecocrisis / Mary Evelyn Tucker --
pt. III. Science and religion : resource and challenge for each other. A Hindu view on science and the spiritual vision / Varadaraja V. Raman --
Buddhism--
an ally of science? / Pinit Ratanakul --
Being human : a personal and mostly Catholic perspective / Ingrid Shafer --
Science and religion as world-builders / Philip Hefner --
Epilogue : On convergence / Jim Kenney.