Science and Religion: New Historical Perspectives - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1107404118 ISBN 13: 9781107404113

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2011

Synopsis

Leading historians explore the complex and contingent histories of religious engagements with science, and challenge the famous 'conflict thesis'.

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Review

'Every student of science and religion will find this book informative, useful, and stimulating.' Theological Book Review

'... there is a great deal here to interest and stimulate the general reader as well as the academic specialist.' The Expository Times

'These days, whenever the words 'science' and 'religion' are brought together, they are likely to conjure up other words like 'debate', 'conflict', and 'inevitable'. That set of associations, real or imagined, is the underlying subject of this remarkable book. It distills an enormous amount of scholarship relating to a fascinating set of subjects of contemporary importance in the form of well-researched and nicely written set of essays brought together in honor of the British historian John Hedley Brooke. It celebrates his work in redefining, one might almost say, defining away, the notion of conflict between science and religion.' Science and Education

Book Description

Bringing together leading scholars, this volume explores the complex histories of religious engagements with science, and challenges the idea of an inevitable conflict between the two disciplines. A major contribution to the historiography of science and religion, it makes the most recent scholarship on this much misunderstood debate widely accessible.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1107404118
• ISBN 13: 9781107404113
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 332
• Editor: Dixon Thomas