Religion and Science: The Basics, Clayton Philip

Автор: Midgley, Mary
Название: Evolution as a religion
ISBN: 0415278333 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415278331
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: In "Evolution as a Religion", Mary Midgley examines how science comes to be used as a substitute for religion and points out how badly that role distorts it. She exposes the illogical logic of poor doctrines that shelter themselves behind the prestige of science.

Автор: Radek Kundt
Название: Contemporary Evolutionary Theories of Culture and the Study of Religion
ISBN: 1350037079 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350037076
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: Radek Kundt compares the notion of evolution in cultural evolutionary theories with neo-Darwinian evolutionary theory to determine the value of the biological concept for studying culture.


Contemporary Evolutionary Theories of Culture and the Study of Religion surveys the historical background of cultural evolution as used in the study of religion, pinpointing major objections to classical nineteenth-century theories. Radek Kundt argues that contemporary theories of cultural evolution do not repeat the same mistakes but that when they are evaluated in terms of fitting the core requirements of neo-Darwinian natural selection, it is clear that they are not legitimate extensions of neo-Darwinian theory. Rather, they are poor metaphors and misleading analogies which add little to conventional cause-and-effect historiographical work.


This book also introduces an alternative evolutionary approach to the study of culture which does not claim that the principles of neo-Darwinian evolution should be applicable outside the biological domain. Radek Kundt shows that this alternative evolutionary approach nevertheless provides a deeply enriching line of enquiry that incorporates both biological evolutionary history as shaping cultural change and culture as a force acting on the gene.

Автор: Tim Labron
Название: Science and Religion in Wittgenstein`s Fly Bottle
ISBN: 1441116575 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781441116574
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: Wittgenstein’s philosophy can help us to untie the knots in our discussion and understanding of the relationship between science and religion. Science and religion have become key contexts for discussions of meaning. However, questions regarding the unity between these two perspectives commonly drive the discussions. Are science and religion in accord or are they diametrically opposed to each other? Can a scientist also be religious? The common perspectives—for or against religion—are based on the same question, 'Do religion and science fit together or not?' The common arguments begin with the preconceived notion that there is a gradient from similarity to difference between science and religion. What is required is a book that shows another perspective; namely, one that does not use an ill-conceived measuring stick to equally measure science and religion. In contrast, we need to see how these disciplines apply their own measures. This book steps out of the polemical arguments to focus on the unique natures of science and religion—without discrediting or endorsing either perspective. As Wittgenstein would say, we need to show the fly out of the bottle. We need to trace the arguments backwards to the fly bottle’s exit. The knotted perspectives stuck in the fly bottle are, in particular, religious fundamentalism and scientific atheism. Surprisingly, integration can also be stuck in the fly bottle when it ignores differences and blurs similarities within the fly bottle. The result is a timely book that uniquely agrees with conclusions, like Richard Dawkins’, that religion is not scientific, but entirely rejects the arguments and the conclusion that religion is therefore illusory.

Автор: Zeller Benjamin E.
Название: Heaven`s Gate: America`s UFO Religion
ISBN: 1479803812 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781479803811
Издательство: Wiley EDC
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2015 Best Book Award from the Communal Studies Association
The captivating story of the people of Heaven’s Gate, a religious group focused on transcending humanity and the Earth, and seeking salvation in the literal heavens on board a UFO
In March 1997, thirty-nine people in Rancho Santa Fe, California, ritually terminated their lives. To outsiders, it was a mass suicide. To insiders, it was a graduation. This act was the culmination of over two decades of spiritual and social development for the members of Heaven’s Gate.
In this fascinating overview, Benjamin Zeller not only explores the question of why the members of Heaven’s Gate committed ritual suicides, but interrogates the origin and evolution of the religion, its appeal, and its practices. By tracking the development of the history, social structure, and worldview of Heaven’s Gate, Zeller draws out the ways in which the movement was both a reflection and a microcosm of larger American culture. The group emerged out of engagement with Evangelical Christianity, the New Age movement, science fiction and UFOs, and conspiracy theories, and it evolved in response to the religious quests of baby boomers, new religions of the counterculture, and the narcissistic pessimism of the 1990s. Thus, Heaven’s Gate not only reflects the context of its environment, but also reveals how those forces interacted in the form of a single religious body.
In the only book-length study of Heaven’s Gate, Zeller traces the roots of the movement, examines its beliefs and practices, and tells the captivating story of its people.

Автор: J.E. Force; R.H. Popkin
Название: Newton and Religion
ISBN: 9048152356 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789048152353
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: Over the past twenty-five years - since the very large collection of Newton`s papers became available and began to be seriously examined - the beginnings of a new picture of Newton has emerged.

Автор: Siddiqui Sabah
Название: Religion and Psychoanalysis in India
ISBN: 1138942596 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138942592
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Religion and Psychoanalysis in India questions the assumptions of an established scientific, evidence-based global mental health paradigm by examining the practices of faith-based healing.

Название: Religion and science as forms of life
ISBN: 178238488X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781782384885
Издательство: Berghahn
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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.

Автор: Mary Gerhart, Allan Melvin Russell
Название: New Maps for Old: Explorations in Science and Religion
ISBN: 1474281583 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474281584
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: This collection of eleven essays, written jointly by the authors, argues that science and religion should be seen as mutually enriching worldviews with no need of reconciliation. The essays are organised in three parts, which deal with the definition and development of the concept of metaphoric process and its implications for illuminating what it means to understand something, the exploration of the so-called bidisciplinary dialogue, and the differences and similarities between studying science and religion respectively.

Автор: Simon Oliver
Название: Creation: A Guide for the Perplexed
ISBN: 0567656098 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780567656094
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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This addition to our popular Guides for the Perplexed series tackles a subject that is enjoying renewed debate: Christianity, along with Judaism and Islam, claims that the universe is not a brute fact. It is 'created'. But what do we mean by 'creation'? Do we mean that the universe is 'designed'? Is it the product of an evolutionary process? How are creatures related to God, and does God act within creation?

Simon Oliver begins with the background to the Christian theology of creation in Greek philosophy and the Old Testament. This provides a route into understanding the claim that we are part of a created order that is also the theatre of God's providential action. He examines different understandings of creation, including creation out of nothing and the analogy of being, with close reference to the work of patristic and medieval theologians such as Augustine and Thomas Aquinas. This leads to an historical overview of the relationship between theological, philosophical and scientific approaches to creation in the modern period. Some of the ethical issues concerning humanity's place within, and treatment of, creation and our environment are also examined. A distinctive yet traditional theology of creation is proposed focused on the concepts of gift and participation as ways of understanding more fully the meaning and implications of the claim that the universe is created.

Автор: Haag James W
Название: Routledge Companion to Religion and Science
ISBN: 041574220X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415742207
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This Companion brings together an outstanding team of scholars to explore the ways in which science intersects with the major religions of the world and religious naturalism. The collection provides an overview of the field and also indicates ways in which it is developing.