Background
Eisen was born on March 6, 1963 in Lafayette, Indiana, United States; the son of Eugene J. Eisen and Jacqueline Serxner Eisen.
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
University of North Carolina
Seattle, Washington, United States
University of Washington
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Emory University
(This unique encyclopedia explores the historical and cont...)
This unique encyclopedia explores the historical and contemporary controversies between science and religion. It is designed to offer multicultural and multi-religious views, and provide wide-ranging perspectives. "Science, Religion, and Society" covers all aspects of the religion and science dichotomy, from humanities to social sciences to natural sciences, and includes articles by theologians, religion scholars, physicians, scientists, historians, and psychologists, among others. The first section, General Overviews, contains essays that provide a road map for exploring the major challenges and questions in science and religion. Following this, the Historical Perspectives section grounds these major questions in the past, and demonstrates how they have developed into the six broad areas of contemporary research and discussion that follow. These sections - Creation, the Cosmos, and Origins of the Universe; Ecology, Evolution, and the Natural World; Consciousness, Mind, and the Brain; Healers and Healing; Dying and Death; and Genetics and Religion - organize the questions and research that are the foundation of the enormous interest, and controversy, in science and religion today.
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2015
(Eight years ago, in an unprecedented intellectual endeavo...)
Eight years ago, in an unprecedented intellectual endeavor, the Dalai Lama invited Emory University to integrate modern science into the education of the thousands of Tibetan Buddhist monks and nuns in exile in India. This project, the Emory Tibet Science Initiative, became the first major change in the monastic curriculum in six centuries. Eight years in, the results are transformative. The singular backdrop of teaching science to Tibetan Buddhist monks and nuns offered provocative insights into how science and religion can work together to enrich each other, as well as to shed light on life and what it means to be a thinking, biological human. In The Enlightened Gene, Emory University Professor Dr. Arri Eisen, together with monk Geshe Yungdrung Konchok explore the striking ways in which the integration of Buddhism with cutting-edge discoveries in the biological sciences can change our understanding of life and how we live it. What this book discovers along the way will fundamentally change the way you think. Are humans inherently good? Where does compassion come from? Is death essential for life? Is experience inherited? These questions have occupied philosophers, religious thinkers and scientists since the dawn of civilization, but in today’s political discourse, much of the dialogue surrounding them and larger issues—such as climate change, abortion, genetically modified organisms, and evolution—are often framed as a dichotomy of science versus spirituality. Strikingly, many of new biological discoveries—such as the millions of microbes that we now know live together as part of each of us, the connections between those microbes and our immune systems, the nature of our genomes and how they respond to the environment, and how this response might be passed to future generations—can actually be read as moving science closer to spiritual concepts, rather than further away. The Enlightened Gene opens up and lays a foundation for serious conversations, integrating science and spirit in tackling life’s big questions. Each chapter integrates Buddhism and biology and uses striking examples of how doing so changes our understanding of life and how we lead it.
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2017
Eisen was born on March 6, 1963 in Lafayette, Indiana, United States; the son of Eugene J. Eisen and Jacqueline Serxner Eisen.
Eisen received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of North Carolina in 1985. Five years later he was given a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Washington.
Eisen has been a lecturer at Emory University since 1990. Also since 1999 he has served as a director of the program in Science and Society and a teaching coordinator of Fellowships in Research and Science Teaching Program at the same university. In addition, since 2005 he has been a leader in the Emory-Tibet Science Initiative program at Emory University.
Eisen had a radio show on WABE, 90.1FM for two years. He wrote a column for ReligionDispatches on science and religion for two years and has published in the peer-reviewed literature with lawyers, chemists, philosophers, public policy scholars, religionists, biochemists, geneticists, physicians, bioethicists and several of his students.
Nowadays he is a professor of pedagogy in biology at the Institute of Liberal Arts and the Center for Ethics at Emory University.
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2017(This unique encyclopedia explores the historical and cont...)
2015On August 11, 1990 Arri Eisen married Lisa Lee Hoveland. They have two children.