Identity in a Secular Age: Science, Religion, and Public Perceptions
A Nuanced Analysis of Perceptions about the Relationship between Evolutionary Science, Religion, and Personal Belief.
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| Language: | English |
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Pittsburgh
University of Pittsburgh Press
2020
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| In: | Year: 2020 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Religion
/ Science
/ Evolutionary biology
/ Secularism
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| Summary: | A Nuanced Analysis of Perceptions about the Relationship between Evolutionary Science, Religion, and Personal Belief. Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction | Fern Elsdon-Baker and Bernard Lightman -- Part I. The Public Sphere -- 1. From Conflict to Complexity: Historians and Nineteenth-Century Public Perceptions of Science and Religion | Bernard Lightman, Sylvia Nickerson, and Parandis Tajbakhsh -- 2. Creating Hard-Line "Secular" Evolutionists: The Influence of Question Design on Our Understanding of Public Perceptions of Clash Narratives | Fern Elsdon-Baker -- 3. Science and Religion Conflict in the United States: A Closer Look at the Polls | Jonathan P. Hill -- 4. Evolution on the Small Screen: Reflections on Media, Science, and Religion in Twentieth-Century Britain | Alexander Hall -- Part II. Conflict and Identity -- 5. Life Story: Oral Histories in the Field of Science and Religion | Paul Merchant -- 6. Science and Religion as Lived Experience: Narratives of Evolution among British and Canadian Publics and Life Scientists | Stephen H. Jones and Tom Kaden -- 7. Beyond Belief Systems: Promoting a Social Identity Approach to the Study of Science and Religion | Carissa A. Sharp and Carola Leicht -- Part III. Secularization -- 8. The Conflict Narrative, Group Identity, and the Uses of History | Peter Harrison -- 9. Secularization: What Has Science Got to Do with It? | Amy Unsworth -- 10. Science as Secular: Dynamics of Reflection, Tolerance, and Contestation in British and Canadian Scientific Workplaces | Rebecca Catto -- Part IV. Future Directions: Methodological and Theoretical -- 11. The Methodological Challenges and Possibilities of Social Scientific Study of Religion and Science across National Contexts | Elaine Howard Ecklund, David R. Johnson, and Robert A. Thomson Jr. -- 12. Possibilities for Future Elite Conflict between Science and Religion | John H. Evans -- Coda | Fern Elsdon-Baker and Bernard Lightman -- Notes. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (277 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780822987697 |
