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
Number of pages: 146
ISBN-13: 9781570038709
Subjects: Religion and science -- Historiography
Description: "This collection of essays ... centers around four sustained dialogues among an international group of leading historians of science. Two of the conversations focus on how historians interpret the relationship between science and religion. Another section examines whether there was such a phenomenon as the scientific revolution and, if so, whether it was of pivotal importance. The final section debates the notion that there has been discernable progress in history. Collectively the experts contributing to this volume seek to broach the big questions at stake in ongoing efforts to fathom the historical interface of science and religion - two of the most important ways of knowing our world - to better our understanding of how both have shaped the course of history and the direction of modern thinking."--Jacket.
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.