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Variable stars --- Congresses --- Galactic halos --- Cosmogony

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What if our world were considered a gift? Extending postmodern gift theory to ecological and ecotheological concerns, Mark Manolopoulos explores how "creation"—the what-is—can be seen as a gift. Creation, when viewed in a radically egalitarian way, is the matrix of all material things—human, otherwise-than-human, or humanly manufactured. Utilizing and critiquing the work of Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Marion, Manolopoulos argues that the gift is an irresolvable paradox marked by the contradictory elements of excess (gratuity, linearity) and exchange (gratitude, return). Philosophical and theological reflections on the gift become entangled in its paradoxical tension, but ultimately both aspects must be respected and reflected. When it comes to the creation-gift, we should vacillate between responses like letting-be, enjoyment, utility, and return. Elegantly written and thought-provoking, If Creation Is a Gift both contributes to the ongoing debate on the gift and provides a fresh philosophical and theological consideration of the environmental crisis.

Human ecology --- Gifts --- Creation. --- Biblical cosmogony --- Cosmogony --- Natural theology --- Teleology --- Beginning --- Biblical cosmology --- Creation windows --- Creationism --- Evolution --- Religious aspects --- Christianity.

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Christian dogmatics --- Patrology --- Creation --- Apologetics --- Biblical teaching --- Bible. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Biblical cosmogony --- Cosmogony --- Natural theology --- Teleology --- Beginning --- Biblical cosmology --- Creation windows --- Creationism --- Evolution --- Gen 1 (Book of the Old Testament) --- Genesis 1 (Book of the Old Testament) --- Creation - Biblical teaching - Early works to 1800 --- Apologetics - Early works to 1800

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Cosmology, the study of the universe as a whole, has become a precise physical science, the foundation of which is our understanding of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR) left from the big bang. The story of the discovery and exploration of the CMBR in the 1960s is recalled for the first time in this collection of 44 essays by eminent scientists who pioneered the work. Two introductory chapters put the essays in context, explaining the general ideas behind the expanding universe and fossil remnants from the early stages of the expanding universe. The last chapter describes how the confusion of ideas and measurements in the 1960s grew into the present tight network of tests that demonstrate the accuracy of the big bang theory. This book is valuable to anyone interested in how science is done, and what it has taught us about the large-scale nature of the physical universe.

Cosmology --- Galaxies --- Cosmic background radiation --- Big bang theory --- Big bang --- Cosmologie --- Cosmic background radiation. --- Big bang theory. --- Cosmology. --- Astronomy --- Deism --- Metaphysics --- Big bang cosmology --- Superdense theory --- Cosmogony --- Expanding universe --- Background radiation, Cosmic --- Cosmic microwave background --- Cosmic microwave radiation --- Microwave background --- Extraterrestrial radiation

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Landscape is a powerful factor in the operation of memory because of the associations narrators make between the local landscape and the events of the stories they tell. Ancestors and mythological events often become fixed in a specific landscape and act as timeless reference points. In conventional anthropological literature, ""landscape"" is the term applied to the meaning local people bestow on their cultural and physical surroundings. In this work, the authors explore the cultural and physical landscapes an individual or cultural group has constructed to define the origins o

Indians --- Indian mythology --- Sacred space --- Physical geography --- Indiens d'Amérique --- Mythologie indienne d'Amérique --- Lieux sacrés --- Géographie physique --- Origin. --- Folklore --- Origines --- Creation - Mythology - America. --- Creation --Mythology --America. --- Indian mythology - America. --- Indian mythology --America. --- Indians. --- Indians - Origin. --- Indians --Folklore. --- Indians --Origin. --- Physical geography - America. --- Physical geography --America. --- Sacred space - America. --- Sacred space --America. --- Creation --- Regions & Countries - Americas --- History & Archaeology --- Americas - General --- Origin --- Mythology --- Indiens d'Amérique --- Mythologie indienne d'Amérique --- Lieux sacrés --- Géographie physique --- Biblical cosmogony --- Holy places --- Places, Sacred --- Sacred places --- Sacred sites --- Sacred spaces --- Sites, Sacred --- Space, Sacred --- Mythology, Indian --- Religion and mythology --- Geography --- Cosmogony --- Natural theology --- Teleology --- Beginning --- Biblical cosmology --- Creation windows --- Creationism --- Evolution --- Holy, The --- Religion and geography