Science and Religion Around the World
The past quarter-century has seen an explosion of interest in the history of science and religion. But all too often the scholars writing it have focused their attention almost exclusively on the Christian experience, with only passing reference to other traditions of both science and faith. At a time when religious ignorance and misunderstanding have lethal consequences, such provincialism must be avoided and, in this pioneering effort to explore the historical relations of what we now call ""…
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The past quarter-century has seen an explosion of interest in the history of science and religion. But all too often the scholars writing it have focused their attention almost exclusively on the Christian experience, with only passing reference to other traditions of both science and faith. At a time when religious ignorance and misunderstanding have lethal consequences, such provincialism must be avoided and, in this pioneering effort to explore the historical relations of what we now call ""science"" and ""religion, "" the authors go beyond the Abrahamic traditions to examine the way nature
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- Publication Date:2010.
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- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press, USA
- Place of Publication:Oxford
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2010.
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- Description:1 online resource (594 pages)
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- ISBN:0195328205, 9780195328202, 0195328191, 9780195328196, 9780199793181, 0199793182
- oclc:ocn990467046
- LC Classification:BL240.3 .S3485 2011
- Dewey Decimal:201/.65
Table of Contents
Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Acknowledgments; Contents; Contributors; Introduction; 1 Early Judaism; 2 Modern Judaism; 3 Early Christianity; 4 Modern Christianity; 5 Early Islam; 6 Modern Islam; 7 Early Chinese Religions; 8 Indic Religions; 9 Buddhism; 10 African Religions; 11 Unbelief; 12 Which Science? Whose Religion?; A Guide to Further Reading; Index.
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