Human Being in Depth: A Scientific Approach to Religion

By Ranganathananda

Book Overview

Swami Ranganathananda, a resident of the Ramakrishna Math in Domalguda, Hyderabad, India, is a Vice President of the Ramakrishna Math and Mission, a world-wide organization located in Calcutta, India. He is the author of The Christ We Adore, Human Values in Management, The Meeting of East and West in Swami Vivekananda, Divine Grace, The Message of the Upanishads, and a four-volume collection of his writings, Eternal Values for a Changing Society. Swami Ranganathananda has been Secretary of the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Director of its School of Humanistic and Cultural Studies, and editor of its monthly journal. In 1986 he became the first recipient of the Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration. Janet A. Walker is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Rutgers University.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791406806
• ISBN13: 9780791406809
• Release Date: October 1991
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 159 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Also known as "Science and Religion"a food for thought book

To anyone intrigued about how Western scientific observations and Vedanta philosophy can be related, this book is an excellent starter.The book attempts to convey to the reader how religion and science need not necessarily conflict in their aims and offers ample reasons for why. One interesting chapter is about a type of faith and Reason and another 'homeostasis and the human consciousness' is related to an existential purpose.Lastly it offers a way to moral health for human society as a whole, irrespective of belief or ideology.i personally recommend this book for those who are unsatisfied or cynical about the aims of science and religion and the purpose of human life.If anything detracts from the book, it could present its findings in a more critical, analytical, less eulogizing fashion at times. however for those sincere in their reading this should detract little from what Swami Ranganathananda`s book has to offer.