Science, Religion and Nationalism (eBook, PDF)

Local Perceptions and Global Historiographies
Redaktion: Navarro, Jaume; Tampakis, Kostas

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Produktbeschreibung

The book illuminate the processes by which religious myths and institutions were largely substituted by stories of progress in science and technology which often contributed to nationalistic ideologies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781003834373
• Artikelnr.: 69447554

Autorenporträt

Jaume Navarro is an Ikerbasque Research Professor at the University of the Basque Country. A historian of science, his interests lay in the history of physics and in the historiography of science and religion. He is author of, among others, A History of the Electron: J.J. and G.P. Thomson (2012) and Ether and Modernity (2018). Kostas Tampakis is a Senior Researcher in the National Hellenic Research Foundation. His research interests include the history of the relations of Orthodox Christianity and the sciences and the history of science in Southeastern Europe. He has coauthored, among others, Science and Orthodox Christianity: An Overview (2016).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction. Science, Religion and Nationalism, or the entanglement of
mythical narratives 2. "Ibn Sina the Turk": Early 20th Century Turkish
Nationalism, Islam, and the Historiography of Science 3. Science in Utopia:
Tommaso Campanella's City of the Sun in the Thought of Luigi Firpo 4.
"Catholics, Natural Science, and National Belonging in Germany, 1830-1914"
5. "John William Draper and 'Thoughts on the Future Civil Policy of
America'" 6. Building a nation. Spanish Engineers in the
Science-and-Religion narratives 7. The Education of the Argentine Nation.
Positivists and Catholics on Science and Religion 8. Nineteenth-century
Mexican nationalism, between liberalism and conservatism: positivism as the
force of the nation 9. "Being Orthodox, Greek and modern: Scientists and
Theologians in 19th and early 20th century Greece" 10. Between Darwin and
Religion. Nation-building and the future of Poland 11. "Serving God,
Fatherland, and Language": Alcover, Catalan, and Science 12. Scientific
atheism seen through the lens of historical museums