Science and Religion in Western Literature (eBook, ePUB)

Critical and Theological Studies
Redaktion: Fuller, Michael

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores ways in which Western literature has engaged with themes found within the field of science and religion, both historically and in the present day.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. August 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000624304
• Artikelnr.: 64216680

Autorenporträt

Michael Fuller is a Lecturer in Science and Religion at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction



Michael Fuller



1 Science and Religion Themes in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust: Sin and Evolution, Panpsychism, and the Dangers of 'Single Vision'



Victoria Lorrimar



2 Weird Tales: The Shifting Role of Science and Religion in Literature's Search for Truth



Alison Jack



3 'Heretical ... Dangerous and Potentially Subversive': The Problem of Science and Religion in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World



Mark Harris



4 Radical Plurality: Science and Religion in the Writings of Karel Capek



Michael Fuller



5 The Spirit of Nature in Natural Philosophy and Literature from the Cambridge Platonists to Coleridge



Alison Milbank



6 The Wound of Knowledge: R. S. Thomas' Cruciform Poetics of Science and Religion



Wilson C. K. Poon



7 Cosmic Consciousness: Henry James, William James, and the Society for Psychical Research



Mark Eaton



8 Marie Corelli's Electric Creed: Science, Religion, and Popular Fiction at the end of the Nineteenth Century



David Jasper



9 Left Behind? Religion as a Vestige in 'The Rapture of the Nerds' and Other AI Singularity Literature



Beth Singler



10 Can Religion Save the Planet? Looking for Hope within the Eco-Religions of Climate Fiction



Jaime Wright



Afterword



Christopher Southgate