In the beginning / Robin W. Lovin and Frank E. Reynolds -- Part I. Single cosmogonies and ethical order -- Cosmogony and order in ancient Greece / Arthur W.H. Adkins -- Behaving cosmogonically in early Taoism / Norman J. Girardot -- Above, below, or far away : Andean cosmogony and ethical order / Lawrence E. Sullivan -- Part II. Cosmogonic traditions and ethical order -- Cosmogony and order in the Hebrew tradition / Douglas A. Knight -- Cosmogony and ethics in the Sermon on the Mount / Hans Dieter Betz -- Ethical and nonethical implications of the separation of heaven and earth in Indian mythology / Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty -- Part III. Multiple cosmogonies and ethical order -- Multiple cosmogonies and ethics : the case of Theravada Buddhism / Frank E. Reynolds -- Completion in continuity : cosmogony and ethics in Islam / Sheryl L. Burkhalter -- Creation narratives and the moral order : implications of multiple models in highland Guatemala / Kay Barbara Warren -- Part IV. Cosmogony, philosophy, and ethics -- Ethics and the breakdown of the cosmogony in ancient Greece / Arhtur W.H. Adkins -- A Confucian crisis : Mencius' two cosmogonies and their ethics / Lee H. Yearley -- Cosmogony, contrivance, and ethical order / Robin W. Lovin -- Part V. Cosmogony, "science," and ethics -- Cosmogony and ethics in the Marxian tradition : premise and destiny of nature and history / Douglas Sturm -- Freud as creator and critic of cosmogonies and their ethics / Lee H. Yearley.