Consecrating Science : Wonder, Knowledge, and the Natural World / Lisa H. Sideris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sideris, Lisa H., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental ethics.

Religion and science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (pages cm)

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Debunking myths behind what is known collectively as the new cosmology-a grand, overlapping set of narratives that claim to bring science and spirituality together-Lisa H. Sideris offers a searing critique of the movement's anthropocentric vision of the world. In Consecrating Science, Sideris argues that instead of cultivating an ethic of respect for nature, the new cosmology encourages human arrogance, uncritical reverence for science, and indifference to nonhuman life. Exploring moral sensibilities rooted in experience of the natural world, Sideris shows how a sense of wonder can foster environmental attitudes that will protect our planet from ecological collapse for years to come.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Return of Mythopoeic Science

1. Seeking What Is Good in Wonder

2. The Book of Nature and the Book of Science: Richard Dawkins on Wonder

3. E. O. Wilson's Ionian Enchantment: A Tale of Two Realities

4. Evolutionary Enchantment and Denatured Religious Naturalism

5. Anthropic and Anthropocene Narratives of the New Cosmology

6. Genesis 2.0: Th e Epic of Evolution as Religion of Reality

7. Making Sense of Wonder

Notes

Glossary of Terms

References

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

9780520967908

0520967909

OCLC:

992968452