Critical approaches to science and religion / edited by Myrna Perez Sheldon, Ahmed Ragab and Terence Keel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sheldon, Myrna Perez, editor.

Ragab, Ahmed, editor.

Keel, Terence, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (417 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2023]

Summary:

This book offers a new direction for scholarship on science and religion that centers social, political, and ecological concerns. Featuring a diverse array of contributors, it draws on three vital schools of thought: critical race theory, feminist and queer theory, and postcolonial theory.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction, by Myrna Perez Sheldon, Terence Keel, and Ahmed Ragab

Part I. Values

Introduction, by Terence Keel, Ahmed Ragab, and Myrna Perez Sheldon

1. Scripture of False Smiles: Scholarship and Lying with Erving Goffman, by Kathryn Lofton

2. Nihilism, Race, and the Critical Study of Science and Religion, by Terence Keel

3. A Feminist Theology of Abortion, by Myrna Perez Sheldon

4. Can Originalism Save Bioethics?, by Osagie K. Obasogie

Part II. Boundaries

5. Spiriting the Johnstons: Producing Science and Religion Under Settler Colonial Rule, by Tisa Wenger

6. Dark Gods in the Age of Light: The Lightbulb, the Japanese Deification of Thomas Edison, and the Entangled Constructions of Religion and Science, by Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm

7. Questioning the Sacred Cow: Science, Religion, and Race in the United States and India, by Cassie Adcock

8. "And God Knows Best": Knowledge, Expertise, and Trust in the Postcolonial Web-Sphere, by Ahmed Ragab

Part III. Narratives

Introduction, by Ahmed Ragab, Terence Keel, and Myrna Perez Sheldon

9. Secular Grace in the Age of Environmentalism, by Erika Lorraine Milam

10. Performing Polygenism: Science, Religion, and Race in the Enlightenment, by Suman Seth

11. Out of Africa: Where Faith, Race, and Science Collide, by Joseph Graves Jr.

Part IV. Coherence

12. Kānaka Maoli Voyaging Technology and Geography Beyond Colonial Difference, by Eli Nelson

13. Speculation Is Not a Metaphor: More than Varieties of Cryobiological Experience, by Joanna Radin

14. Maroon Science: Knowledge, Secrecy, and Crime in Jamaica, by Katharine Gerbner.

15. Obeah Simplified? Scientism, Magic, and the Problem of Universals, by J. Brent Crosson

Conclusion, by Myrna Perez Sheldon, Terence Keel, and Ahmed Ragab

List of Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-231-55654-3

OCLC:

1369062833