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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lightman, Bernard

Contributor:

Lightman, Bernard, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and science--History.

Religion and science.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (318 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2019]

Summary:

The historical interface between science and religion was depicted as an unbridgeable conflict in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Starting in the 1970s, such a conception was too simplistic and not at all accurate when considering the totality of that relationship. This volume evaluates the utility of the "complexity principle" in past, present, and future scholarship. First put forward by historian John Brooke over twenty-five years ago, the complexity principle rejects the idea of a single thesis of conflict or harmony, or integration or separation, between science and religion. Rethinking History, Science, and Religion brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars at the forefront of their fields to consider whether new approaches to the study of science and culture-such as recent developments in research on science and the history of publishing, the global history of science, the geographical examination of space and place, and science and media-have cast doubt on the complexity thesis, or if it remains a serviceable historiographical model. -- Publisher's description.

Contents:

Introduction / Bernard Lightman

Part I. The local and the global

The stigmata of ancestry: reinvigorating the conflict thesis in the American 1970s / Erika Lorraine Milam

Three centuries of scientific culture and Catholicism in Argentina: a case study of long-term trends / Miguel de Asúa

Reexamining complexity" Sayyid Ahmad Khan's interpretation of "science" in Islam / Sarah A. Qidwai

Christian missionaries, science, and the complexity thesis in the nineteenth-century world / John Stenhouse

Part II. The media and the public

Creating a new space for debate: the monthlies, science, and religion / Bernard Lightman

Darwin's publisher: John Murray III at the Intersection of science and religion / Sylvia Nickerson

The "harmony thesis" in the Turkish media, 1950-1970 / M. Alper Yalçinkaya

A humanist blockbuster" Jacob Bronowski and the ascent of man / Alexander Hall

Teaching warfare: conflict and complexity in contemporary university textbooks / Thomas H. Aechtner

Part III. Historiographies and theories

Revisiting the battlefields of science and religion: the warfare thesis today / Ronald L. Numbers

From Copernicus to Darwin to you: history and the meaning(s) of evolution / Ian Hesketh

Scale, territory, and complexity: historical geographies of science and religion / Diarmid A. Finnegan

Conflict, complexity, and secularization in the history of science and religion / Peter Harrison

Afterword: The instantiation of historical complexity / John Hedley Brooke.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822987048

082298704X