Critical Approaches to Science and Religion / / ed. by Terence Keel, Myrna Perez Sheldon, Ahmed Ragab.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
• MitwirkendeR: Adcock, Cassie,; Crosson, J. Brent,; Gerbner, Katharine,; Graves, Joseph L Jr.,; Keel, Terence,; Lofton, Kathryn,; Lorraine Milam, Erika,; Nelson, Eli,; Obasogie, Osagie K.,; Perez Sheldon, Myrna,; Radin, Joanna,; Ragab, Ahmed,; Seth, Suman,; Storm, Josephson,; Wenger, Tisa,; Ānanda, Jason,
• HerausgeberIn: Keel, Terence,; Ragab, Ahmed,; Sheldon, Myrna Perez,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Critical Approaches to Science and Religion offers a new direction for scholarship on science and religion that examines social, political, and ecological concerns long part of the field but never properly centered. The works that make up this volume are not preoccupied with traditional philosophical or theological issues. Instead, the book draws on three vital schools of thought: critical race theory, feminist and queer theory, and postcolonial theory. Featuring a diverse array of contributors, it develops critical perspectives by examining how histories of empire, slavery, colonialism, and patriarchy have shaped the many relationships between science and religion in the modern era. In so doing, this book lays the groundwork for scholars interested in speaking directly to matters such as climate change, structural racism, immigration, health care, reproductive justice, and sexual identity.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I VALUES -- Introduction -- 1 Scripture of False Smiles: Lying with Erving Goffman -- 2 Nihilism, Race, and the Critical Study of Science and Religion -- 3 A Feminist Theology of Abortion -- 4 Can Originalism Save Bioethics? -- PART II BOUNDARIES -- Introduction -- 5 Spiriting the Johnstons: Producing Science and Religion Under Settler Colonial Rule -- 6 Dark Gods in the Age of Light: The Lightbulb, the Japanese Deification of Thomas Edison, and the Entangled Constructions of Religion and Science -- 7 Questioning the Sacred Cow: Science, Religion, and Race in the United States and India -- 8 “And God Knows Best”: Knowledge, Expertise, and Trust in the Postcolonial Web-Sphere -- PART III NARRATIVES -- Introduction -- 9 Secular Grace in the Age of Environmentalism -- 10 Performing Polygenism: Science, Religion, and Race in the Enlightenment -- 11 Out of Africa: Where Faith, Race, and Science Collide -- PART IV COHERENCE -- Introduction -- 12 Kānaka Maoli Voyaging Technology and Geography Beyond Colonial Difference -- 13 Speculation Is Not a Metaphor: More than Varieties of Cryobiological Experience -- 14 Maroon Science: Knowledge, Secrecy, and Crime in Jamaica -- 15 Obeah Simplified? Scientism, Magic, and the Problem of Universals -- CONCLUSION -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX