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9781107404113

Science and Religion

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  • ISBN13:

    9781107404113

  • ISBN10:

    1107404118

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2011-12-15
  • Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

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The idea of an inevitable conflict between science and religion was decisively challenged by John Hedley Brooke in his classic Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives (Cambridge, 1991). Almost two decades on, Science and Religion: New Historical Perspectives revisits this argument and asks how historians can now impose order on the complex and contingent histories of religious engagements with science. Bringing together leading scholars, this volume explores the history and changing meanings of the categories 'science' and 'religion'; the role of publishing and education in forging and spreading ideas; the connection between knowledge, power and intellectual imperialism; and the reasons for the confrontation between evolution and creationism among American Christians and in the Islamic world. A major contribution to the historiography of science and religion, this book makes the most recent scholarship on this much misunderstood debate widely accessible.

Table of Contents

List of contributors
Preface
Introduction
Categories
'Science' and 'religion': constructing the boundaries
Science and religion in postmodern perspective: the case of Bruno Latour
Narratives
Religion and the changing historiography of the Scientific Revolution
The late-Victorian conflict of science and religion as an event in nineteenth-century intellectual and cultural history
Islam, Christianity and the conflict thesis
Evolution and Creationism
Evolution and creationism in the Islamic world
Understanding creationism and evolution in America and Europe
The Politics of Publishing
A global history of science and religion
The Scopes trial beyond science and religion
Science, religion, and the history of the book
Ways Forward
Sciences and religions: what it means to take historical perspectives seriously
Simplifying complexity: patterns in the history of science and religion
What shall we do with the 'Conflict Thesis'?
Select bibliography
Index
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