David Blanks

Lowell Gustafson

Barry Rodrigue

This book examines the meaning of religion within the scientific, evidence-based history of our known past since the big bang. While our current major religions are only centuries or millennia old, our volume discusses the origins and development of human religious practice and belief over our species’ existence of 300,000 years. The volume also connects the scientific approach to natural and social history with ancient truths of our religious ancestors using new lines of inquiry, new technologies, new modes of expression, and new concepts. It brings together insights of natural scientists, social scientists, philosophers, writers, and theologians to discuss narratives of the universe. The essays discuss that to apprehend religion scientifically, or to interpret and explain science theologically, the subject must be examined through a variety of disciplinary lenses simultaneously and raise several theoretical, philosophical, and moral problems. With a singular investigation into the meaning of religion in the context of the 13.8 billion-year history of our universe, this book will be indispensable for scholars and students of religious studies, big history, sociology and social anthropology, philosophy, and science and technology studies.

Science, Religion and Deep Time

David Christian

David Baker

William R. Thompson

Anton L. Grinin

Alexander D. Panov

George Modelski.

Valentina M. Bondarenko.

Ivan A. Aleshkovski

Alexey I. Andreev

Julia V. Zinkina

Oleg A. Alekseenko

Olga G. Leonova

Tatyana L. Shestova

Craig G. Benjamin

Sergey V. Tsirel

Kentaro Sakuwa

Mikhail А. Kaverin 

Sergey Yu. Malkov

Vladimir Maslov

Stanislav Ye. Bilyuga

Olga I. Davydova

Dmitry S. Malkov.

Alexander V. Markov

Joseph Voros

This yearbook is the fourth in the series with the title Globalistics and Globalization Studies. The subtitle of the present volume is Global History & Big History. The point is that today our global world really demands global knowledge. Thus, there are a few actively developing multidisciplinary approaches and integral disciplines among which one can name Global Studies, Global History and Big History. They all provide a connection between the past, present, and future. Big History with its vast and extremely heterogeneous field of research encompasses all the forms of existence and all timescales and brings together constantly updated information from the scientific disciplines and the humanities. Global History is transnational or world history which examines history from a global perspective, making a wide use of comparative history and of the history of multiple cultures and nations. Global Studies express the view of systemic and epistemological unity of global processes. Thus, one may argue that Global Studies and Globalistics can well be combined with Global History and Big History and such a multi-disciplinary approach can open wide horizons for the modern university education as it helps to form a global view of various processes.

Big History & Global History

Globalistics and Globalization Studies

Lowell Gustafson

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