International Perspectives on Science, Culture, and Belief

From Complexity to Globality
Herausgeber: Elsdon Baker, Fern; Jones, Stephen H.; Riley, James

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Produktbeschreibung

This innovative and timely collection revisits, challenges and rethinks longstanding assumptions by decentring positions and perspectives that have until recently dominated discussions of science and belief, and explores the social and cultural drivers of the relationships between evolutionary science and belief.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm
• Gewicht: 453g
• ISBN-13: 9781032760063
• ISBN-10: 1032760060
• Artikelnr.: 73491019

Autorenporträt

Fern Elsdon-Baker is Professor of Science, Knowledge and Belief in Society at the University of Birmingham. She was PI of 'Science and Religion: Exploring the Spectrum' projects between 2014 and 2023 and previously Head of 'Darwin Now', the British Council's international celebration of the life and work of Charles Darwin. Stephen H. Jones is Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Sociology at Keele University. He was Co-PI of 'Science and Religion: Exploring the Spectrum: A Global Perspective' and is Co-PI and Co-Director of the International Research Network for the Study of Science and Belief in Society. His publications include Science, Belief and Society (eds. with Tom Kaden and Rebecca Catto, 2019). James Riley is a mixed-methods researcher with interests in science communication, science and society, and science and belief. Between 2019 and 2023 he worked on the quantitative strand of the Science and Religion: Exploring the Spectrum of Global Perspectives project, hosted at the University of Birmingham with partner institutions internationally.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction PART ONE: CONTEXT 2. Contending with Complexity: The
Challenges of Global Histories of Evolution and Religion 3. Contending with
Empire: Colonial Intersections in the Historiography of Science and
Religion PART TWO: COUNTRY CASE STUDIES 4. Argentina: A Narrative of
Conflict Confined to Niches 5. Australia: Religion-Science Views in
Australia's Creationist Heartland 6. Conflict on the Margins of a Secular
Public: Science and Religion in Germany 7. When Evolution is not a Problem:
Exploring Religion and Science Debates in Contemporary Spain 8. Sri Lanka:
Science, Religion and Evolution in a Context of Religious Pluralism 9. The
Cultural Life of the Science/Religion Conflict Thesis after 'New Atheism':
The Case of the United Kingdom 10. Science and Religion in Middle America:
Agreement and Diversity PART THREE: CROSS-CULTURAL ANALYSIS 11. Where the
Conflict Really Lies: Quantitatively Locating Evolution Conflicts
Internationally 12. Comparability vs. Relevance: Exploring Perceptions of
Science and Religion Across Countries from a Psychological Perspective
PART FOUR: NEW HORIZONS IN THE STUDY OF SCIENCE, CULTURE AND BELIEF 13.
Culture, Politics and the Economy as Mediators of the Science and Religion
Relationship in Africa 14. Sciencey-Spirituality, Neoliberalism and
Eco-Anxiety in Australia