Consecrating Science

Lisa H. Sideris is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Indiana University, where her research focuses on religion, science, and environmentalism. She is the author of Environmental Ethics, Ecological Theology, and Natural Selection.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Return of Mythopoeic Science1. Seeking What Is Good in Wonder2. The Book of Nature and the Book of Science: Richard Dawkins on Wonder3. E. O. Wilson’s Ionian Enchantment: A Tale of Two Realities4. Evolutionary Enchantment and Denatured Religious Naturalism5. Anthropic and Anthropocene Narratives of the New Cosmology6. Genesis 2.0: The Epic of Evolution as Religion of Reality7. Making Sense of WonderNotesGlossary of TermsReferencesIndex

"Lisa Sideris’s Consecrating Science: Wonder, Knowledge, and the Natural World is a rich and deeply insightful analysis of a family of ambitious historical narratives, each of which is vying to become the new myth everyone lives by. Through careful textual study, Sideris convincingly argues that despite their stated goal of promoting a deep respect and care for the natural world, these narratives may inadvertently undermine development of the environmental ethic they seek to foster."