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Science and Religion: New Historical Perspectives

By Thomas Dixon , Geoffrey Cantor , Stephen Pumfrey

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2010
ISBN
0521760275, 9780521760270
LCC
BL245 .S38 2010
Open Library ID
OL23872811M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1999466 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
332\333
Time added
2011-04-28 18:43:47

Description

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 new 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.

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