Introduction
Geology and religion: a historical perspective on current problems, M Kölbl-Ebert
Jean-André de Luc (1727–1817): an atheist’s comparative view of the historiography, D R Oldroyd
From mythological approaches towards the European Enlightenment
Water and Inca cosmogony: myths, geology and engineering in the Peruvian Andes, L F Mazadiego, O Puche & S A M Hervá
Explanations of the Earth’s features and origin in pre-Meiji Japan, P Barbaro
The providence of mineral generation in the sermons of Johann Mathesius (1504–1565), J A Norris
Earthquakes as God’s punishment in 17th- and 18th-century Spain, A Udías
The idiom of a six day creation and global depictions in Theories of the Earth, K V Magruder
The fossil proboscideans of Utica (Tunisia), a key to the ‘giant’ controversy, from Saint Augustine (424) to Peiresc (1632), G Godard
Flood conceptions in Vallisneri’s thought, F Luzzini
The Flood and the age of the Earth
Discussing the age of the Earth in 1779 in Portugal, M S Pinto & F Amador
On the Earth’s revolutions: floods and extinct volcanoes in northern Italy at the end of the eighteenth century, A Candela
Scheuchzer, von Haller and de Luc: geological world-views and religious backgrounds in opposition or collaboration? C Schweizer
Biblical Flood and geological deluge: the amicable dissociation of geology and Genesis, M J S Rudwick
‘Our favourite science’: Lord Bute and James Parkinson searching for a Theory of the Earth, C L E Lewis
Cuvier’s attitude toward creation and the biblical Flood, P Taquet
Geology within ‘religious’ organizations
Jesuits’ studies of earthquakes and seismological stations, A Udías
‘Red and expert’: Chinese glaciology during the Mao Tse-tung period (1958–1976), J Zhang & D R Oldroyd
Geological clerics and Christian geologists
Adam Sedgwick (1785–1873): geologist and evangelical, M B Roberts
Some nineteenth- and twentieth-century Australian geological clerics, D Branagan
Geological observations by the Reverend Charles P. N. Wilton (1795–1859) in New South Wales and his views on the relationship between religion and science, W Mayer
Franz X. Mayr, the spiritual father of the Jura-Museum, G K Viohl
Religious convictions as support in dangerous expeditions: Hermann Abich (1806–1886) and Heinrich Barth (1821–1865), E Seibold & I Seibold
Reverent and exemplary: ‘dinosaur man’ Friedrich von Huene (1875–1969), S Turner
Evolution
James Buckman (1841–1884): the scientific career of an English Darwinian thwarted by religious prejudice, H S Torrens
Franz Unger and Sebastian Brunner on evolution and the visualization of Earth history; a debate between liberal and conservative Catholics, M Klemun
Geology and Genesis in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Italy: a preliminary Assessment, E Vaccari
History of creationism
Natural theology in the eighteenth century, as exemplified in the writings of Élie Bertrand (1713–1797), a Swiss naturalist and Protestant pastor, K B Bork
The reception of geology in the Dutch Reformed tradition: the case of Herman Bavinck (1854–1921), D A Young
From the beginning: faith and geology at evangelical Wheaton College, S O Moshier, D E Maas & J K Greenberg
Theodicic creationism: its membership and motivations, R A Peters
Theology and creationism
The history of the doctrine of creation; a Catholic perspective, M Ostermann
An Anglican priest’s perspective on the doctrine of creation in the church today, M B Roberts
Index