Science and religion around the world
by Brooke, John Hedley Numbers, Ronald L.
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 "s…
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- Full title :Science and religion around the world / edited by John Hedley Brooke and Ronald L. Numbers.
Summary
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
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- Publication Date:2011.
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- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2011.
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- Description:1 online resource (xv, 316 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780199793181, 0199793182
- oclc:ocn694087958
- LC Classification:BL240.3
- Dewey Decimal:201/.65
Table of Contents
Introduction: Contextualizing science and religion / John Hedley Brooke and Ronald L. Numbers -- Early Judaism / Noah Efron -- Modern Judaism / Geoffrey Cantor -- Early Christianity / Peter Harrison, David C. Lindberg -- Modern Christianity / John Hedley Brooke -- Early Islam / Ahmad S. Dallal -- Modern Islam / Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu -- Early Chinese religions / Mark Csikszentmihalyi -- Indic religions / B.V. Subbarayappa -- Buddhism / Donald S. Lopez, Jr. -- African religions / Steven Feierman, John M. Janzen -- Unbelief / Bernard Lightman -- Which science? Whose religion? / David N. Livingstone.
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