Science and religion : new historical perspectives / edited by Thomas Dixon, Geoffrey Cantor, and Stephen Pumfrey.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Edwin E. Aubrey Memorial Fund.

Dixon, Thomas (Thomas M.)

Cantor, G. N., 1943-

Pumfrey, Stephen

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and science--History.

Religion and science.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 317 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Summary:

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--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction / Thomas Dixon

'Science' and 'religion' : constructing the boundaries / Peter Harrison

Science and religion in postmodern perspective : the case of Bruno Latour / Jan Golinski

Religion and the changing historiography of the scientific revolution / Margaret J. Osler

The late Victorian conflict of science and religion as an event in nineteenth-century intellectual and cultural history / Frank M. Turner

Islam, Christianity, and the conflict thesis / B. Harun Küçük

Evolution and creationism in the Islamic world / Salman Hameed

Understanding creationism and evolution in America and Europe / Bronislaw Szerszynski

A global history of science and religion / Sujit Sivasundaram

The Scopes trial beyond science and religion / Adam R. Shapiro

Science, religion, and the history of the book / Jonathan R. Topham

Sciences and religions : what it means to take historical perspectives seriously / Noah Efron

Simplifying complexity : patterns in the history of science and religion / Ronald L. Numbers

What shall we do with the 'conflict thesis'? / Geoffrey Cantor.

Notes:

"First published in 2010"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edwin E. Aubrey Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780521760270

0521760275

1107404118

9781107404113

OCLC:

739118572