Book Description
Writings in learned subjects from the period eighth to thirteenth centuries, AD.
Author : M. J. L. Young
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 15,49 MB
Release : 2006-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521028875
Writings in learned subjects from the period eighth to thirteenth centuries, AD.
Author : Elaine Howard Ecklund
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 50,51 MB
Release : 2010-05-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0195392981
That the longstanding antagonism between science and religion is irreconcilable has been taken for granted. And in the wake of recent controversies over teaching intelligent design and the ethics of stem-cell research, the divide seems as unbridgeable as ever.In Science vs. Religion, Elaine Howard Ecklund investigates this unexamined assumption in the first systematic study of what scientists actually think and feel about religion. In the course of her research, Ecklund surveyed nearly 1,700 scientists and interviewed 275 of them. She finds that most of what we believe about the faith lives of elite scientists is wrong. Nearly 50 percent of them are religious. Many others are what she calls "spiritual entrepreneurs," seeking creative ways to work with the tensions between science and faith outside the constraints of traditional religion. The book centers around vivid portraits of 10 representative men and women working in the natural and social sciences at top American research universities. Ecklund's respondents run the gamut from Margaret, a chemist who teaches a Sunday-school class, to Arik, a physicist who chose not to believe in God well before he decided to become a scientist. Only a small minority are actively hostile to religion. Ecklund reveals how scientists-believers and skeptics alike-are struggling to engage the increasing number of religious students in their classrooms and argues that many scientists are searching for "boundary pioneers" to cross the picket lines separating science and religion.With broad implications for education, science funding, and the thorny ethical questions surrounding stem-cell research, cloning, and other cutting-edge scientific endeavors, Science vs. Religion brings a welcome dose of reality to the science and religion debates.
Author : Philip Clayton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 12,38 MB
Release : 2013-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1136640673
Intelligent Design vs. the New Atheists.
Author : Brendan Sweetman
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 26,18 MB
Release : 2009-12-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1847060153
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Author : Guy G. Stroumsa
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 29,80 MB
Release : 2010-06-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780674048607
Guy Stroumsa offers an innovative and powerful argument that the comparative study of religion finds its origin in early modern Europe. --from publisher description.
Author : Elaine Howard Ecklund
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 50,27 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0190650621
At the end of a five-year journey to find out what religious Americans think about science, Ecklund and Scheitle emerge with the real story of the relationship between science and religion in American culture. Based on the most comprehensive survey ever done-representing a range of religious traditions and faith positions-Religion vs. Science is a story that is more nuanced and complex than the media and pundits would lead us to believe. The way religious Americans approach science is shaped by two fundamental questions: What does science mean for the existence and activity of God? What does science mean for the sacredness of humanity? How these questions play out as individual believers think about science both challenges stereotypes and highlights the real tensions between religion and science. Ecklund and Scheitle interrogate the widespread myths that religious people dislike science and scientists and deny scientific theories. Religion vs. Science is a definitive statement on a timely, popular subject. Rather than a highly conceptual approach to historical debates, philosophies, or personal opinions, Ecklund and Scheitle give readers a facts-on-the-ground, empirical look at what religious Americans really understand and think about science.
Author : M. J. L. Young
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 26,4 MB
Release : 1990-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521327633
The five centuries of the 'Abbasid period (eighth to thirteenth centuries AD) were the golden age of Arabic literature. They saw the appearance not only of poetry and belles-lettres (which are covered in a previous volume), but also of an extensive body of writings concerned with subjects ranging from theology and law to history and the natural sciences. This volume of The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature surveys the most important of these writings, including the literature of Sunnism and Shi'ism, Arabic philosophy, Sufism, Islamic law, grammar, lexicography, administration, historiography, mathematics, astronomy, astrology, geography, alchemy and medicine. It contains separate chapters on six of the greatest scholars of the Middle Ages, as well as on the Arabic literature of the Christians and Jews who lived under the rule of the 'Abbasid caliphate, and includes a study of one of the great cultural movements of the period, the translations from Greek into Arabic.
Author : Carl Reinhold Brakenhielm
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 48,48 MB
Release : 2018-06-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1498246168
The main aim of this book is to contribute to the relationship between science and religion. This book aims to do constructive theological work out of a particular cultural context. The point of departure is contemporary Swedish religion and worldviews. One focus is the process of biologization (i.e., how the worldviews of the general public in Sweden are shaped by biological science). Is there a gap between Swedes in general and the perceptions of Swedish clergy? The answer is based on sociological studies on science and religion in Sweden and the United States. Furthermore, the book contains a study of Swedish theologians, from Nathan Soderblom to the present Archbishop Antje Jackelen, and their shifting understanding of the relation between science and religion. The philosophical aspects of this relation are given special consideration. What models of the relation inform the contemporary scholarly discussion? Are science and religion in conflict, separate, or in mutual creative interaction?
Author : Jeff Hardin
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 23,88 MB
Release : 2018-10-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 1421426188
Scheitle, M. Alper Yalçinkaya
Author : Warren A. Nord
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 35,47 MB
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 1469617455
Warren Nord's thoughtful book tackles an issue of great importance in contemporary America: the role of religion in our public schools and universities. According to Nord, public opinion has been excessively polarized by those religious conservatives who would restore religious purposes and practices to public education and by those secular liberals for whom religion is irrelevant to everything in the curriculum. While he maintains that public schools and universities must not promote religion, he also argues that there are powerful philosophical, political, moral, and constitutional reasons for requiring students to study religion. Indeed, only if religion is included in the curriculum will students receive a truly liberal education, one that takes seriously a variety of ways of understanding the human experience. Intended for a broad audience, Nord's comprehensive study encompasses American history, constitutional law, educational theory and practice, theology, philosophy, and ethics. It also discusses a number of current, controversial issues, including multiculturalism, moral education, creationism, academic freedom, and the voucher and school choice movements.