Religion and Science as Forms of Life: Anthropological Insights into Reason and Unreason
The relationships between science and religion are about to enter a new phase in our contemporary world, as scientific knowledge has become increasingly relevant in ordinary life, beyond the institutional public spaces where it traditionally developed. The purpose of this volume is to analyze the re...
| Résumé: | The relationships between science and religion are about to enter a new phase in our contemporary world, as scientific knowledge has become increasingly relevant in ordinary life, beyond the institutional public spaces where it traditionally developed. The purpose of this volume is to analyze the relationships, possible articulations and contradictions between religion and science as forms of life: ways of engaging human experience that originate in particular social and cultural formations. Contributions use this theoretical and ethnographic research to explore different scientific and religious cultures in the contemporary world Introduction: Science, Religion and Forms of Life -- Carles Salazar -- PART I: COGNITION -- Chapter 1. Maturationally Natural Cognition Impedes Professional Science and Facilitates Popular Religion -- Robert N. McCauley -- Chapter 2. Scientific vs. Religious 'Knowledge' in Evolutionary Perspective -- Michael Blume -- Chapter 3. Magic and Ritual in an Age of Science -- Jesper Sørensen -- PART II: BEYOND SCIENCE -- Chapter 4. Moral Employments of Scientific Thought -- Timothy Jenkins -- Chapter 5. The Social Life of Concepts: Public and Private 'Knowledge' of Scientific Creationism -- Simon Coleman -- Chapter 6. The Embryo, Sacred and Profane -- Marit Melhuus -- Chapter 7. The Religions of Science and the Sciences of Religion in Brazil. -- Roger Sansi-Roca -- Chapter 8. Science in Action, Religion in Thought: Catholic Charismatics' Notions about Illness -- Maria Coma -- PART III: MEANING SYSTEMS -- Chapter 9. On the Resilience of Superstition -- João de Pina-Cabral -- Chapter 10. Religion, Magic and Practical Reason: Meaning and Everyday Life in Contemporary Ireland -- Tom Inglis -- Chapter 11. Can the Dead Suffer Traumas? Religion and Science after the Vietnam War -- Heonik Kwon -- Notes on Contributors -- |
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| Description: | Zielgruppe - Audience: Professional and scholarly |
| Description matérielle: | 1 Online-Ressource (238 p) |
| ISBN: | 1782384898 |