Science and religion : Edwin Salpeter, Owen Gingerich and John Polkinghorne / edited by Radha Beteille ; interviews by Alan Macfarlane, Mark Turin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Macfarlane, Alan, author.

Contributor:

Macfarlane, Alan, interviewer (expression).

Turin, Mark, interviewer (expression).

Salpeter, Edwin E., interviewee (expression).

Gingerich, Owen, interviewee (expression).

Polkinghorne, J. C., 1930-2021, interviewee (expression).

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Series:

Creative lives and works.

Creative lives and works

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Salpeter, Edwin E--Interviews.

Salpeter, Edwin E.

Gingerich, Owen--Interviews.

Gingerich, Owen.

Polkinghorne, J. C., 1930-2021--Interviews.

Polkinghorne, J. C.

Polkinghorne, J. C., 1930-2021.

Religion and science.

Genre:

Interviews.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Alan Macfarlane was born in Shillong, India, in 1941 and educated at the Dragon School, Sedbergh School, Oxford and London Universities where he received two Master's degrees and two doctorates. He is the author of over forty books, including The Origins of English Individualism (1978) and Letters to Lily: On How the World Works (2005). He has worked in England, Nepal, Japan and China as both an historian and anthropologist. He was elected to the British Academy in 1986 and is now Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of Cambridge and a Life Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. Professor Macfarlane received the Huxley Memorial Medal, the highest honour of the Royal Anthropological Institute in 2012. Mark Turin is a British anthropologist, linguist and radio broadcaster who specializes in the Himalayas and the Pacific Northwest. From 2014-18, he served as Chair of the First Nations and Endangered Languages Program and Acting Co-Director of the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He is Associate Professor of Anthropology and director of the Digital Himalaya Project. Turin serves as founding editor of the World Oral Literature Series with the Cambridge-based Open Book Publishers, which aims to preserve and promote the oral literatures of Indigenous communities in innovative, responsive, ethical and culturally-appropriate ways. Turin's work has been recognized by the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies and the Killam Trust. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Turin

Contents:

Introduction PART I Edwin Salpeter

In conversation with Mark Turin PART II Owen Gingerich

In conversation with Alan Macfarlane PART III John Polkinghorne

In conversation with Alan Macfarlane <BR>

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781000467901

1000467902

9781000467871

1000467872

9781003222446

1003222447

Publisher Number:

40030873258

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