Science and religion : new historical perspectives

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The work Science and religion : new historical perspectives represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Science and religion : new historical perspectives

Title remainder

new historical perspectives

Statement of responsibility

Edited by Thomas Dixon, Geoffrey Cantor, Stephen Pumfrey

Contributor

• Cantor, G. N., 1943-
• Dixon, Thomas, (Thomas M)
• Dixon, Thomas, (Thomas M.)
• Pumfrey, Stephen
• Cantor, G. N., 1943-

Subject

• Religion and science -- History
• Science -- History

Language

eng

Summary

"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 new 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. A major contribution to the historiography of science and religion, this book makes the most recent scholarship on this much misunderstood debate widely accessible"--Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

UkCbUP

Index

index present

LC call number

BL245

LC item number

.S38 2010eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries