Evolutionary Theories and Religious Traditions : National, Transnational, and Global Perspectives, 1800-1920 / edited by Bernard Lightman and Sarah Qidwai.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lightman, Bernard, editor.

Qidwai, Sarah, editor.

Series:

SCI CD.

Sci and Culture in the Nineteenth Century Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Evolution--Religious aspects--History--19th century.

Evolution.

Religion and science--History--19th century.

Religion and science.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (401 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2023]

Summary:

Before the advent of radio, conceptions of the relationship between science and religion circulated through periodicals, journals, and books, influencing the worldviews of intellectuals and a wider public. In this volume, historians of science and religion examine that relationship through diverse mediums, geographic contexts, and religious traditions. Spanning within and beyond Europe and North America, chapters emphasize underexamined regions-New Zealand, Australia, India, Argentina, Sri Lanka, Egypt, and the Ottoman Empire-and major religions of the world, including Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Islam; interactions between those traditions; as well as atheism, monism, and agnosticism. As they focus on evolution and human origins, contributors draw attention to European scientists other than Darwin who played a significant role in the dissemination of evolutionary ideas; for some, those ideas provided the key to understanding every aspect of human culture, including religion. They also highlight central figures in national contexts, many of whom were not scientists, who appropriated scientific theories for their own purposes. Taking a local, national, transnational, and global approach to the study of science and religion, this volume begins to capture the complexity of cultural engagement with evolution and religion in the long nineteenth century.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction. Bernard Lightman and Sarah Qidwai

Part I | Empire and Colony

1 | British Orientalism on Histories of Religion and Astral Sciences in Northern India | Simon Schaffer

2 | Debating Evolution and Religion in Nineteenth-Century South Asia | Tamara Fernando and Sarah Qidwai

3 | Evolution in Colonial Australia: Institutions, Religion, and Moral Formation | Joel Barnes

4 | As Above, So Below: The Role of Astronomical Evolution, Imperialism, and Religion in the Long Nineteenth Century | Edward Guimont

Part II | Authority and Minority

5 | Evolution in Times of Political Transformations: Science, Religion, and the Media in Restoration Spain (1874-1898) | Jaume Navarro

6 | Argentine Positivism on Evolution and Religion in the Late Nineteenth Century | Ignacio Silva

7 | Prehistoric and Primeval Pasts: Antique Chronology and Civilizational Progress in Semicolonial Egypt | Meira Gold

8 | Evolution, Religion, and Racial Politics in New Zealand, 1814-1930 | John Stenhouse

Part III | Appropriation and Response

9 | Evolution and Religion in Transnational Contexts: Britain, Japan, and China, 1859-1920 | Fa-ti Fan and Bernard Lightman

10 | The Jōdo Shinshū Embrace of Science in Late Meiji and Taishō Japan: Science, Secularism, and Buddhism in the Thought of Ishikawa Seishō and Fujikawa Yū | Tomoko Yoshida and Stephen P. Weldon

11 | Cosmic, Theistic Evolution and Kang Youwei: "The Martin Luther of Confucianism" | Wan Zhaoyuan

12 | Evolution and Constructions of Islam in the Ottoman World, 1870-1920 | M. Alper Yalçınkaya

13 | "Science Is Justified by Works, Not by Faith": American Biologists and Ernst Haeckel's Evolutionary Science and Religion | Daniel Halverson

Coda | From Complexity to the Transnational | Bernard Lightman and Sarah Qidwai

Notes.

Select Bibliography

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780822990079

0822990075

OCLC:

1407277256