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Identity in a secular age : science, religion, and public perceptions /

"Although historians have suggested for some time that we move away from the assumption of a necessary clash between science and religion, the conflict narrative persists in contemporary discourse. But why? And how do we really know what people actually think about evolutionary science, let alo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Elsdon-Baker, Fern (Editor ), Lightman, Bernard V., 1950- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2020]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Fern Elsdon-Baker and Bernard Lightman
  • Part 1. The Public Sphere: From Conflict to Complexity: Historians and Nineteenth-Century Public Perceptions of Science and Religion / Bernard Lightman, Sylvia Nickerson, and Parandis Tajbakhsh
  • Creating Hard-Line "Secular" Evolutionists: The Influence of Question Design on Our Understanding of Public Perceptions of Clash Narratives / Fern Elsdon-Baker
  • Science and Religion Conflict in the United States: A Closer Look at the Polls / Jonathan P. Hill
  • Evolution on the Small Screen: Reflections on Media, Science, and Religion in Twentieth-Century Britain / Alexander Hall
  • Part 2. Conflict and Identity: Life Story: Oral Histories in the Field of Science and Religion / Paul Merchant
  • Science and Religion as Lived Experience: Narratives of Evolution among British and Canadian Publics and Life Scientists / Stephen H. Jones and Tom Kaden
  • Beyond Belief Systems: Promoting a Social Identity Approach to the Study of Science and Religion / Carissa A. Sharp and Carola Leicht
  • Part 3. Secularization: The Conflict Narrative, Group Identity, and the Uses of History / Peter Harrison
  • Secularization: What Has Science Got to Do with It? / Amy Unsworth
  • Science as Secular: Dynamics of Reflection, Tolerance, and Contestation in British and Canadian Scientific Workplaces / Rebecca Catto
  • Part 4. Future Directions: Methodological and Theoretical: 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.
  • Possibilities for Future Elite Conflict between Science and Religion / John H. Evans
  • Coda / Fern Elsdon-Baker and Bernard Lightman.