Identity in a secular age : science, religion, and public perceptions / Fern Elsdon-Baker and Bernard Lightman, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Elsdon-Baker, Fern, editor.

Lightman, Bernard V., 1950- editor.

ProQuest ebook central.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and science.

Evolution (Biology)--Religious aspects.

Evolution (Biology).

Faith.

Experience (Religion).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2020]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Part I The Public Sphere

1 From Conflict to Complexity: Historians and Nineteenth-Century Public Perceptions of Science and Religion Bernard Lightman p. 13 / Sylvia Nickerson and Parandis Tajbakhsh

2 Creating Hard-Line "Secular" Evolutionists: The Influence of Question Design on Our Understanding of Public Perceptions of Clash Narratives p. 30 / Fern Elsdon-Baker

3 Science and Religion Conflict in the United States A Closer Look at the Polls p. 50 / Jonathan P. Hill

4 Evolution on the Small Screen: Reflections on Media, Science, and Religion in Twentieth-Century Britain Alexander Hall p. 67

Part II Conflict and Identity

5 Life Story Oral Histories in the Field of Science and Religion Paul Merchant p. 87

6 Science and Religion as Lived Experience: Narratives of Evolution among British and Canadian Publics and Life Scientists p. 99 / Stephen H. Jones and Tom Kaden

7 Beyond Belief Systems: Promoting a Social Identity Approach to the Study of Science and Religion p. 111 / Carissa A. Sharp and Carola Leicht

Part III Secularization

8 The Conflict Narrative, Group Identity, and the Uses of History p. 129 / Peter Harrison

9 Secularization What Has Science Got to Do with It? p. 141 / Amy Unsworth

10 Science as Secular: Dynamics of Reflection, Tolerance, and Contestation in British and Canadian Scientific Workplaces p. 159 / Rebecca Catto

Part IV Future Directions: Methodological and Theoretical

11 The Methodological Challenges and Possibilities of Social Scientific Study of Religion and Science Across National Contexts p. 175 / Elaine Howard Ecklund and David R. Johnson and Robert A. Thomson Jr.

12 Possibilities for Future Elite Conflict Between Science and Religion p. 189 / John H. Evans.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

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ISBN:

9780822987697

0822987694

Publisher Number:

40030099174

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