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Religion and Science in the Global Age — Their Essential Character and Mutual Relationship

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Zen and Western Thought

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It is almost impossible to deal with a problem of the magnitude of ‘Religion and Science in the Global Age’ in its full scale and depth. Nevertheless I would like to discuss what I consider essential to the issue and elucidate it from a Buddhist point of view.

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  1. Keiji Nishitani, Religian and Nothingness (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982) p. 77.

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  2. In writing this Chapter, the author owes much to Keiji Nishitani’s Religion and Nothingness, published by University of California Press, 1982, especially Ch. 4, pp. 77–118.

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© 1985 Masao Abe and William R. LaFleur

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Abe, M., LaFleur, W.R. (1985). Religion and Science in the Global Age — Their Essential Character and Mutual Relationship. In: LaFleur, W.R. (eds) Zen and Western Thought. Library of Philosophy and Religion. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06994-1_14

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