Religion Science And Empire

Author : Peter Gottschalk
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780195393019

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Religion, Science, and Empire by Peter Gottschalk Pdf

Peter Gottschalk offers a compelling study of how, through the British implementation of scientific taxonomy in the subcontinent, Britons and Indians identified an inherent divide between mutually antagonistic religious communities. England's ascent to power coincided with the rise of empirical science as an authoritative way of knowing not only the natural world, but the human one as well. The British scientific passion for classification, combined with the Christian impulse to differentiate people according to religion, led to a designation of Indians as either Hindu or Muslim according to rigidly defined criteria that paralleled classification in botanical and zoological taxonomies. Through an historical and ethnographic study of the north Indian village of Chainpur, Gottschalk shows that the Britons' presumed categories did not necessarily reflect the Indians' concepts of their own identities, though many Indians came to embrace this scientism and gradually accepted the categories the British instituted through projects like the Census of India, the Archaeological Survey of India, and the India Museum. Today's propogators of Hindu-Muslim violence often cite scientistic formulations of difference that descend directly from the categories introduced by imperial Britain. Religion, Science, and Empire will be a valuable resource to anyone interested in the colonial and postcolonial history of religion in India.

Author : Zaheer Baber
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1996-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0791429202

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The Science of Empire by Zaheer Baber Pdf

Investigates the complex social processes involved in the introduction and institutionalization of Western science in colonial India.

Author : Sujit Sivasundaram
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2005-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0521848369

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Nature and the Godly Empire by Sujit Sivasundaram Pdf

A study of the relations between nineteenth-century science and Christianity.

Author : Edward Grant
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2006-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0801884012

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Science and Religion, 400 B.C. to A.D. 1550 by Edward Grant Pdf

Grant illuminates how today's scientific culture originated with the religious thinkers of the Middle Ages.

Author : Hiromi Mizuno
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0804776563

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Science for the Empire by Hiromi Mizuno Pdf

This fascinating study examines the discourse of science in Japan from the 1920s to the 1940s in relation to nationalism and imperialism. How did Japan, with Shinto creation mythology at the absolute core of its national identity, come to promote the advancement of science and technology? Using what logic did wartime Japanese embrace both the rationality that denied and the nationalism that promoted this mythology? Focusing on three groups of science promoters—technocrats, Marxists, and popular science proponents—this work demonstrates how each group made sense of apparent contradictions by articulating its politics through different definitions of science and visions of a scientific Japan. The contested, complex political endeavor of talking about and promoting science produced what the author calls "scientific nationalism," a powerful current of nationalism that has been overlooked by scholars of Japan, nationalism, and modernity.

Author : John William Draper
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783734059070

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History of the Conflict between Religion and Science by John William Draper Pdf

Reproduction of the original: History of the Conflict between Religion and Science by John William Draper

Author : Draper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UBBE:UBBE-00135266

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History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science by Draper Pdf

Author : John William Draper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Religion and science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105116268694

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History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science by John William Draper Pdf

Author : John William Draper
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368309480

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History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science by John William Draper Pdf

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Author : Mauricio Nieto
Publisher : Maritime Humanities
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9463725318

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Exploration, Religion and Empire in the Sixteenth-Century Ibero-Atlantic World by Mauricio Nieto Pdf

The book offers convincing evidence to incorporate the Catholic world of early modernity into the history of modern science. The research is supported by the analysis of not widely studied primary sources such as the sixteenth century Iberian nautical manuals. Through the use of theoretical frameworks such as the Actor Network Theory, the book sheds light on the need to incorporate the role of heterogeneous human actors and artifacts (ships, navigation tools, sails, cannons), natural and geographical agents (ocean currents, winds, the sun, the moon and the stars), and divine entities (gods, daemons and saints) into the political history of early modernity.

Author : H. Carey
Publisher : Springer
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2008-11-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230228726

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Empires of Religion by H. Carey Pdf

A sparkling new collection on religion and imperialism, covering Ireland and Britain, Australia, Canada, the Cape Colony and New Zealand, Botswana and Madagascar. Bursting with accounts of lively characters and incidents from around the British world, this collection is essential reading for all students of religious and imperial history.

Author : David Chidester
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780226117577

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Empire of Religion by David Chidester Pdf

How is knowledge about religion and religions produced, and how is that knowledge authenticated and circulated? David Chidester seeks to answer these questions in Empire of Religion, documenting and analyzing the emergence of a science of comparative religion in Great Britain during the second half of the nineteenth century and its complex relations to the colonial situation in southern Africa. In the process, Chidester provides a counterhistory of the academic study of religion, an alternative to standard accounts that have failed to link the field of comparative religion with either the power relations or the historical contingencies of the imperial project. In developing a material history of the study of religion, Chidester documents the importance of African religion, the persistence of the divide between savagery and civilization, and the salience of mediations—imperial, colonial, and indigenous—in which knowledge about religions was produced. He then identifies the recurrence of these mediations in a number of case studies, including Friedrich Max Müller’s dependence on colonial experts, H. Rider Haggard and John Buchan’s fictional accounts of African religion, and W. E. B. Du Bois’s studies of African religion. By reclaiming these theorists for this history, Chidester shows that race, rather than theology, was formative in the emerging study of religion in Europe and North America. Sure to be controversial, Empire of Religion is a major contribution to the field of comparative religious studies.

Author : John William Draper (Chemist.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:B000363514

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History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science by John William Draper (Chemist.) Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1451012969

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History fo the Conflict Between Religion and Science by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Hedley Brooke,Ronald L. Numbers
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199793204

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Science and Religion Around the World by John Hedley Brooke,Ronald L. Numbers Pdf

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 has been understood and manipulated in regions as diverse as ancient China, India, and sub-Saharan Africa. Science and Religion around the World also provides authoritative discussions of science in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam -- as well as an exploration of the relationship between science and the loss of religious beliefs. The narratives included in this book demonstrate the value of plural perspectives and of the importance of location for the construction and perception of science-religion relations.