Science and Religion in India: Beyond Disenchantment (Routledge Science and Religion Series) - Softcover

Thomas, Renny

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1032100613 ISBN 13: 9781032100616

Publisher: Routledge, 2023

Synopsis

This book provides an in-depth ethnographic study of science and religion in the context of South Asia, giving voice to Indian scientists and shedding valuable light on their engagement with religion. Drawing on biographical, autobiographical, historical, and ethnographic material, the volume focuses on scientists’ religious life and practices, and the variety of ways in which they express them. Renny Thomas challenges the idea that science and religion in India are naturally connected and argues that the discussion has to go beyond binary models of ‘conflict’ and ‘complementarity’. By complicating the understanding of science and religion in India, the book engages with new ways of looking at these categories.

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About the Author

Renny Thomas is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Social Anthropology at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032100613
• ISBN 13: 9781032100616
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 214