Critical Approaches to Science and Religion /

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

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 philosophica...

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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
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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

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