Rethinking history, science, and religion : an exploration of conflict and the complexity principle / edited by Bernard Lightman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lightman, Bernard V., 1950- author.

Contributor:

Project Muse.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and science--History.

Religion and science.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

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Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Part I The Local and the Global

1 The Stigmata of Ancestry: Reinvigorating the Conflict Thesis in the American 1970s p. 19 / Erika Lorraine Milam

2 Three Centuries of Scientific Culture and Catholicism in Argentina: A Case Study of Long-Term Trends p. 37 / Miguel de Asúa

3 Reexamining Complexity: Sayyid Ahmad Khan's Interpretation of "Science" in Islam p. 50 / Sarah A. Qidwai

4 Christian Missionaries, Science, and the Complexity thesis in the Nineteenth-Century World p. 65 / John Stenhouse

Part II The Media and the Public

5 Creating a New Space for Debate: The Monthlies, Science, and Religion p. 85 / Bernard Lightman

6 Darwin's Publisher: John Murray III at the Intersection of Science and Religion p. 110 / Sylvia Nickerson

7 The "Harmony Thesis" in the Turkish Media, 1950-1970 p. 129 / M. Alper Yalçinkaya

8 A Humanist Blockbuster: Jacob Bronowski and The Ascent of Man p. 145 / Alexander Hall

9 Teaching Warfare: Conflict and Complexity in Contemporary University Textbooks p. 160 / Thomas H. Aechtner

Part III Historiographies and Theories

10 Revisiting the Battlefields of Science and Religion: The Warfare Thesis Today p. 183 / Ronald L. Numbers

11 From Copernicus to Darwin to You: History and the Meaning(s) of Evolution p. 191 / Ian Hesketh

12 Scale, Territory, and Complexity: Historical Geographies of Science and Religion p. 206 / Diarmid A. Finnegan

13 Conflict, Complexity, and Secularization in the History of Science and Religion p. 221 / Peter Harrison.

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Baltimore, MD Available via World Wide Web.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 7, 2019)

ISBN:

9780822987048

082298704X

Publisher Number:

40029503883

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.