SCIENCE AND RELIGION New Historical Perspectives

• Other Authors: Cantor, G. N. 1943- (Editor), Dixon, Thomas Thomas M. (Editor), Pumfrey, Stephen (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS 2010
• Subjects: Religion and science > History
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• Physical Description: xiv, 317 pages 24 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-310) and index
• ISBN: 9780521760270; 0521760275

The idea of an inevitable conflict between science and religion was decisively challenged by John Hedley Brooke in his classic Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives (Cambridge, 1991). Almost two decades on, Science and Religion: New Historical Perspectives revisits this argument and asks how historians can now impose order on the complex and contingent histories of religious engagements with science. Bringing together leading scholars, this volume explores the history and changing meanings of the categories 'science' and 'religion'; the role of publishing and education in forging and spreading ideas; the connection between knowledge, power and intellectual imperialism; and the reasons for the confrontation between evolution and creationism among American Christians and in the Islamic world.