Recent themes in the history of science and religion
Subtitle: historians in conversation
By: edited by Donald A. Yerxa.
Contributors: Yerxa, Donald A., 1950-
Series: Historians in conversation
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Columbia, S.C
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781570038709
Subjects: Religion and science -- Historiography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Big questions and the complex engagements of science and religion in history / Donald A. Yerxa; title: Science and religion in historical perspective; title: Assessing the relations between science and religion / William R. Shea; title: Response to William Shea / Edward J. Larson; title: Comments on William Shea / Ronald L. Numbers; title: Rejoinder to Numbers and Larson / William R. Shea; title: Complexity and the history of science and religion; title: Science, religion, and historical complexity / John Hedley Brooke; title: Reply to Brooke / William R. Shea; title: Science, religion, and the cartographies of complexity / David N. Livingstone; title: Response / John Hedley Brooke; title: Herbert Butterfield and the scientific revolution; title: Reassessing the Butterfield thesis / Peter Harrison; title: Response to Harrison / William R. Shea; title: The Butterfield thesis and the scientific revolution : comments on Peter Harrison / David C. Lindberg; title: Response to Harrison : Butterfield's origins of modern science and the scientific revolution / Charles C. Gillispie; title: Rejoinder to Gillespie, Lindberg, and Shea / Peter Harrison; title: Progress in history; title: Progress in history / Bruce Mazlish; title: Progress : directionality or betterment / David Christian; title: Progress as parochialism / J.C.D. Clark; title: Progress in history / Robert E. Lucas, Jr.; title: Contingency, necessity, teleology, and progress : reply to Mazlish / Aviezer Tucker; title: Rejoinder / Bruce Mazlish.