{"product_id":"science-and-religion-new-historical-perspectives-paperback-9781107404113","title":"Science and Religion; New Historical Perspectives (Paperback \/ softback) 9781107404113","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eScience and Religion\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eNew Historical Perspectives\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLeading historians explore the complex and contingent histories of religious engagements with science, and challenge the famous 'conflict thesis'.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eThomas Dixon (Edited by), Geoffrey Cantor (Edited by), Stephen Pumfrey (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781107404113, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 8 December 2011\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e332 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.44 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'These days, whenever the words 'science' and 'religion' are brought together, they are likely to conjure up other words like 'debate', 'conflict', and 'inevitable'. That set of associations, real or imagined, is the underlying subject of this remarkable book. It distills an enormous amount of scholarship relating to a fascinating set of subjects of contemporary importance in the form of well-researched and nicely written set of essays brought together in honor of the British historian John Hedley Brooke. It celebrates his work in redefining, one might almost say, defining away, the notion of conflict between science and religion.' Science and Education\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe 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. A major contribution to the historiography of science and religion, this book makes the most recent scholarship on this much misunderstood debate widely accessible.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of contributors\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e 1. Introduction Thomas Dixon\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Categories: 2. 'Science' and 'religion': constructing the boundaries Peter Harrison\u003cbr\u003e 3. Science and religion in postmodern perspective: the case of Bruno Latour Jan Golinski\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Narratives: 4. Religion and the changing historiography of the Scientific Revolution Margaret J. Osler\u003cbr\u003e 5. The late-Victorian conflict of science and religion as an event in nineteenth-century intellectual and cultural history Frank M. Turner\u003cbr\u003e 6. Islam, Christianity and the conflict thesis B. Harun Küçük\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Evolution and Creationism: 7. Evolution and creationism in the Islamic world Salman Hameed\u003cbr\u003e 8. Understanding creationism and evolution in America and Europe Bronislaw Szerszynski\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. The Politics of Publishing: 9. A global history of science and religion Sujit Sivasundaram\u003cbr\u003e 10. The Scopes trial beyond science and religion Adam R. Shapiro\u003cbr\u003e 11. Science, religion, and the history of the book Jonathan R. Topham\u003cbr\u003e Part V. Ways Forward: 12. Sciences and religions: what it means to take historical perspectives seriously Noah Efron\u003cbr\u003e 13. Simplifying complexity: patterns in the history of science and religion Ronald L. Numbers\u003cbr\u003e 14. What shall we do with the 'Conflict Thesis'? Geoffrey Cantor\u003cbr\u003e Select bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Philosophy of science [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Philosophy of science\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Philosophy%20of%20science%20%5BPDA%5D%22\"\u003ePDA\u003c\/a\u003e], Religion: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Religion: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Religion:%20general%20%5BHRA%5D%22\"\u003eHRA\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46265687048472,"sku":"9781107404113","price":37.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781107404113i.jpg?v=1694484929","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/science-and-religion-new-historical-perspectives-paperback-9781107404113","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}