PARI PUBLISHING

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Publishing
THE PARI DIALOGUES
ESSAYS IN SCIENCE, RELIGION,SOCIETY
AND THE ARTS
Volume 1

Ed: F. David Peat

The Pari Dialogues are the first in an annual series of essays contributed by
experts in their fields who are known for the breadth and depth of their
knowledge. The main focus of this first volume is on the dialogue between
religion and science with essays by the former director of the Vatican Obser-
vatory who asks what should be the proper boundaries between religion and
science and what can religion and science each say about creation? Other
essays deal with the role of belief in the lives of scientists; the connection
between science and Sufi mysticism; the parallel visions of Simone Weil and
Publishing: the theories of superstrings and multiverses; on ways in which religions can
September 2007 ensure a just society; the complementary visions of Western Science and the
Native American world view; the possibilities of new paths to peace; and the
ISBN: 978-88-901960-5-8 nature of the creative act in both art and literature. The volume also includes
£9.99 a dialogue with the sculptor, Antony Gormley on how Buddhist meditation
Paperback and his experience of “the inner darkness of the body” informs his art.

The result is an informative and stimulating survey of contemporary thought

Religion/Ethics/Science
in science, religion, society and the arts. Contributors include the former
Dutch Ambassador, Edy Korthals Altes author of A Heart and Soul for Europe;
Islamic scholar, Virginia Del Re; novelist, Alison MacLeod (The Wave Theory of
Angels); writer and theoretical physicist, F. David Peat; writer, broadcaster and
biologist, Colin Tudge; T.S. Eliot Award-winning poet, David Keplinger;
astronomer, George Coyne, S.J.

The Pari Dialogues are edited by the scientist and writer F. David Peat, who is
also the director of the Pari Center for New Learning.

Press contact: Eleanor Peat, eleanor@paripublishing.com

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