Encyclopedia of Time: Science, Philosophy, Theology, &amp;amp; Culture

H. JamesBirx

doi:10.4135/9781412963961

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Edited by:
H. James Birx
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc.
- Publication year: 2009
- Online pub date: January 20, 2009
Discipline: Sociology
Subject: Time Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4135/9781412963961
Keywords:
accounting, achievement, Albert Einstein, ancestors, angels, animals, anthropology, archaeology, Aristotle, art, astronomy, authority, Bible, birds, births, Buddhism, calendars, careers, caves, Charles Darwin, chemistry, Christianity, chronology, churches, cities, classification, communism, complexity, conflict, consciousness, creativity, critique, customs, cycles, dating, death, decision making, determinism, discipline, disease, drugs, economics, emergence, emotion, empires, encyclopedia, energy, engineering, England, Enlightenment, epistemology, ethics, Europe, evil, evolution, existentialism, experiments, extinction, fathers, field studies, fossil record, fossils, foundations, France, Friedrich Nietzsche, genetics, geology, Germany, gods, healing, heaven, Hinduism, human activities, human development, human evolution, human experience, humanism, idealism, ideologies, ideology, Immanuel Kant, Islam, Italy, Judaism, knowledge, language, law, legends, Lewis Henry Morgan, life cycle, life sciences, marxism, mass extinctions, mathematics, measurement, memory, metaphysics, methodology, moon, motion, movement, movements, music, mysticism, mythology, natural sciences, natural selection, naturalism, ontology, organic evolution, organisms, organizations, paleontology, persons, philosophy, philosophy and history, philosophy of science, photography, physical sciences, physicists, physics, planets, plants, Plato, political economy, political philosophy, politics, population, postmodernism, psychology, publications, publishing, religion, religion and science, religious beliefs, religious thought, revolutions, rituals, role playing, Roman Catholicism, Rome, saints, scaling, science fiction, scientific research, scientists, seasons, social change, social interaction, social science, social stratification, sociology, sociology of religion, solar system, sons, soul, species, stars, structuralism, synthesis, teaching, temperature, terrorism, theology, theoretical physics, theories, Thomas Aquinas, time management, time perception, time perspective, tolerance, tradition, translation, travel, trees, utilitarianism, utopianism, war, war and peace, worldviews, zoning
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Surveying the major facts, concepts, theories, and speculations that infuse our present comprehension of time, the Encyclopedia of Time: Science, Philosophy, Theology, & Culture explores the contributions of scientists, philosophers, theologians, and creative artists from ancient times to the present. By drawing together into one collection ideas from scholars around the globe and in a wide range of disciplines, this Encyclopedia will provide readers with a greater understanding of and appreciation for the elusive phenomenon experienced as time.

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  Birx, H. J., ed. Encyclopedia of Time: Science, Philosophy, Theology, & Culture. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2009. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781412963961.
  
  Birx, H. J. ed., 2009. Encyclopedia of Time: Science, Philosophy, Theology, & Culture. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. Available at: <https://doi.org/10.4135/9781412963961> [Accessed 28 May 2023].
  
  Birx, H. J., editor. Encyclopedia of Time: Science, Philosophy, Theology, & Culture. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2009. Sage Knowledge, 28 May 2023, doi: https://doi.org/10.4135/9781412963961.
  
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