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Reconciling science and religion : the debate in early-twentieth-century Britain /
Although much has been written about the vigorous debates over science and religion in the Victorian era, little attention has been paid to their continuing importance in early twentieth-century Britain. Reconciling Science and Religion provides a comprehensive survey of the interplay between Britis...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2001.
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| Colección: | Science and its conceptual foundations.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Although much has been written about the vigorous debates over science and religion in the Victorian era, little attention has been paid to their continuing importance in early twentieth-century Britain. Reconciling Science and Religion provides a comprehensive survey of the interplay between British science and religion from the late nineteenth century to World War II. Peter J. Bowler argues that unlike the United States, where a strong fundamentalist opposition to evolutionism developed in the 1920s (most famously expressed in the Scopes "monkey trial" of 1925), in Britain there was |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 479 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 429-470) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780226068572 0226068579 1282901788 9781282901780 9786612901782 6612901780 |