Science Religion And Society

Author : Jones, Stephen,Catto, Rebecca
Publisher : Bristol University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781529206944

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Science, Belief and Society by Jones, Stephen,Catto, Rebecca Pdf

The relationship between science and belief has been a prominent subject of public debate for many years, one that has relevance to everything from science communication, health and education to immigration and national values. Yet, sociological analysis of these subjects remains surprisingly scarce. This wide-ranging book critically reviews the ways in which religious and non-religious belief systems interact with scientific theories and practices. Contributors explore how, for some secularists, ‘science’ forms an important part of social identity. Others examine how many contemporary religious movements justify their beliefs by making a claim upon science. Moving beyond the traditional focus on the United States, the book shows how debates about science and belief are firmly embedded in political conflict, class, community and culture.

Author : Arri Eisen,Gary Laderman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 909 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317460138

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Science, Religion and Society by Arri Eisen,Gary Laderman Pdf

This unique encyclopedia explores the historical and contemporary controversies between science and religion. It is designed to offer multicultural and multi-religious views, and provide wide-ranging perspectives. "Science, Religion, and Society" covers all aspects of the religion and science dichotomy, from humanities to social sciences to natural sciences, and includes articles by theologians, religion scholars, physicians, scientists, historians, and psychologists, among others. The first section, General Overviews, contains essays that provide a road map for exploring the major challenges and questions in science and religion. Following this, the Historical Perspectives section grounds these major questions in the past, and demonstrates how they have developed into the six broad areas of contemporary research and discussion that follow. These sections - Creation, the Cosmos, and Origins of the Universe; Ecology, Evolution, and the Natural World; Consciousness, Mind, and the Brain; Healers and Healing; Dying and Death; and Genetics and Religion - organize the questions and research that are the foundation of the enormous interest, and controversy, in science and religion today.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:836401505

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Science, Religion, and Society by Anonim Pdf

Author : Herman Bavinck,John Bolt
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780801032417

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Essays on Religion, Science, and Society by Herman Bavinck,John Bolt Pdf

The Body of Writing: An Erotics of Contemporary American Fiction examines four postmodern texts whose authors play with the material conventions of "the book": Joseph McElroy's Plus (1977), Carole Maso's AVA (1993), Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's DICTEE (1982), and Steve Tomasula's VAS (2003). By demonstrating how each of these works calls for an affirmative engagement with literature, Flore Chevaillier explores a centrally important issue in the criticism of contemporary fiction. Critics have claimed that experimental literature, in its disruption of conventional story-telling and language uses, resists literary and social customs. While this account is accurate, it stresses what experimental texts respond to more than what they offer. This book proposes a counter-view to this emphasis on the strictly privative character of innovative fictions by examining experimental works' positive ideas and affects, as well as readers' engagement in the formal pleasure of experimentations with image, print, sound, page, orthography, and syntax. Elaborating an erotics of recent innovative literature implies that we engage in the formal pleasure of its experimentations with signifying techniques and with the materiality of their medium. Such engagement provokes a fusion of the reader's senses and the textual material, which invites a redefinition of corporeality as a kind of textual practice.

Author : Michael Polanyi
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1964-08-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226672908

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Science, Faith and Society by Michael Polanyi Pdf

In its concern with science as an essentially human enterprise, Science, Faith and Society makes an original and challenging contribution to the philosophy of science. On its appearance in 1946 the book quickly became the focus of controversy. Polanyi aims to show that science must be understood as a community of inquirers held together by a common faith; science, he argues, is not the use of "scientific method" but rather consists in a discipline imposed by scientists on themselves in the interests of discovering an objective, impersonal truth. That such truth exists and can be found is part of the scientists' faith. Polanyi maintains that both authoritarianism and scepticism, attacking this faith, are attacking science itself.

Author : Anthony Walsh
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781622739554

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God, Science, and Society: The Origin of the Universe, Intelligent Life, and Free Societies by Anthony Walsh Pdf

“It may seem bizarre, but in my opinion, science offers a surer path to God than religion…science has actually advanced to the point where what were formerly religious questions can be seriously tackled” (Paul Davies, Astrophysicist). Anthony Walsh’s latest riposte to atheistic arguments against God's existence draws on Natural Theology, a knowledge of God based on evidence from both the natural and social sciences. Covering everything from the Big Bang and the origins of life to the mystery of intelligent consciousness, Walsh makes even the most technical scientific writings accessible to the general reader and tackles a question few books on the relationship between science and religion have ever sought to address: how does Christianity positively affect societies, families, and individuals in terms of democracy, justice, happiness, health, and prosperity?

Author : Arri Eisen,Gary Laderman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Reference
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114448066

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Science, Religion, and Society by Arri Eisen,Gary Laderman Pdf

Covers all aspects of the religion and science dichotomy, from humanities to social sciences to natural sciences, and includes articles by theologians, religion scholars, physicians, scientists, historians, and psychologists, among others.

Author : William H. Swatos
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0761989560

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Encyclopedia of Religion and Society by William H. Swatos Pdf

As the new millennium approaches, the sacred and profane interface, conflict, and intermingle in novel ways. The Encyclopedia of Religion and Society provides a guide map for these developments. From succinct, brief notes to essay-length entries, it covers world religions, religious perspectives on political and social issues, and religious leaders and scholars -- present and past -- in the United States and the world. This comprehensive volume is an essential reference for studies in the anthropology, psychology, politics, and sociology of religion. Topics include: abortion, adolescence, African-American religious experience, anthropology of religion, Buddhism, commitment, conversion, definition of religion, ecology movement, Emile Durkheim, ethnicity, fundamentalism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, new religious movements, organization, parish, Talcott Parsons, racism, research methods, Roman Catholicism, sexism, Unification Church, Max Weber, and many others.

Author : Fraser Watts,Kevin Dutton
Publisher : Templeton Foundation Press
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2006-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781599471037

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Why the Science and Religion Dialogue Matters by Fraser Watts,Kevin Dutton Pdf

Each world faith tradition has its own distinctive relationship with science, and the science-religion dialogue benefits from a greater awareness of what this relationship is. In this book, members of the International Society for Science and Religion (ISSR) offer international and multi-faith perspectives on how new discoveries in science are met with insights regarding spiritual realities.The essays reflect the conviction that “religion and science each proceed best when they’re pursued in dialogue with each other, and also that our fragmented and divided world would benefit more from a stronger dialogue between science and religion.” In Part One, George F. R. Ellis, John C. Polkinghorne, and Holmes Rolston III, each a Templeton Prize winner, discuss their views on why the science and religion dialogue matters. They are joined in Part Two by distinguished theologians Fraser Watts and Philip Clayton, who place the dialogue in an international context; John Polkinghorne’s inaugural address to the ISSR in 2002 is also included. In Part Three, five members of the ISSR look at the distinctive relationships of their faiths to science: •Carl Feit on Judaism •Munawar Anees on Islam •B.V. Subbarayappa on Hinduism •Trinh Xuan Thuan on Buddhism •Heup Young Kim on Asian Christianity George Ellis, the recently elected second president of ISSR, summarizes the contributions of his colleagues. Ronald Cole-Turner then concludes the book with a discussion of the future of the science and religion dialogue.

Author : Catherine M. Tucker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1934691526

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Nature, Science, and Religion by Catherine M. Tucker Pdf

This book is about the complicated and provocative ways nature, science, and religion intersect in real settings where people attempt to live in harmony with the physical environment. The contributors explore how scientific knowledge and spiritual beliefs are engaged to shape natural resource management, environmental activism, and political processes.

Author : Elaine Howard Ecklund
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780195392982

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Science Vs. Religion by Elaine Howard Ecklund Pdf

Examines the science versus religion debate by interviewing scientists regarding their own faiths.

Author : Robert N. McCauley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780199341542

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Why Religion is Natural and Science is Not by Robert N. McCauley Pdf

A comparison of the cognitive foundations of religion and science and an argument that religion is cognitively natural and that science is cognitively unnatural.

Author : Aileen Fyfe
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780226276465

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Science and Salvation by Aileen Fyfe Pdf

Threatened by the proliferation of cheap, mass-produced publications, the Religious Tract Society issued a series of publications on popular science during the 1840s. The books were intended to counter the developing notion that science and faith were mutually exclusive, and the Society's authors employed a full repertoire of evangelical techniques—low prices, simple language, carefully structured narratives—to convert their readers. The application of such techniques to popular science resulted in one of the most widely available sources of information on the sciences in the Victorian era. A fascinating study of the tenuous relationship between science and religion in evangelical publishing, Science and Salvation examines questions of practice and faith from a fresh perspective. Rather than highlighting works by expert men of science, Aileen Fyfe instead considers a group of relatively undistinguished authors who used thinly veiled Christian rhetoric to educate first, but to convert as well. This important volume is destined to become essential reading for historians of science, religion, and publishing alike.

Author : Yiftach Fehige
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317335238

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Science and Religion by Yiftach Fehige Pdf

This volume situates itself within the context of the rapidly growing interdisciplinary field that is dedicated to the study of the complex interactions between science and religion. It presents an innovative approach insofar as it addresses the Eurocentrism that is still prevalent in this field. At the same time it reveals how science develops in the space that emerges between the ‘local’ and the ‘global’. The volume examines a range of themes central to the interaction between science and religion: ‘Eastern’ thought within ‘Western’ science and religion and vice versa, and revisits thinkers who sought to integrate ‘Eastern’ and ‘Western’ thinking. It studies Zen Buddhism and its relation to psychotherapy, Islamic science, Vedantic science, atheism in India, and Darwinism, offering in turn new perspectives on a variety of approaches to nature. Part of the Science and Technology Studies series, this volume brings together original perspectives from major scholars from across disciplines and will be of great interest to scholars and students of science and technology studies, history of science, philosophy of science, religious studies, and sociology.

Author : Philip Clayton,Zachary Simpson
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks Online
Page : 1041 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199279272

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The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Science by Philip Clayton,Zachary Simpson Pdf

The field of `science and religion' is exploding in popularity among both academics and the reading public. This is a comprehensive and authoritative introduction to the debate, written by the leading experts yet accessible to the general reader.