Evolutions and Religious Traditions in the Long Nineteenth Century - National and Transnational Histories

How Intellectuals and Global Publics Viewed the Relationship between Evolution and Diverse Religious Traditions

About the author

Bernard Lightman (Editor)
Bernard Lightman is distinguished research professor in the Humanities Department at York University and past president of the History of Science Society. He is the editor of Rethinking History and Science and Religion and coeditor of Science Periodicals in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Identity in a Secular Age. He also serves as a general editor for The Correspondence of John Tyndall and the Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century series at the University of Pittsburgh Press.

Sarah Qidwai (Editor)
Sarah Qidwai is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Regensburg. Qidwai is a historian of science and empire in the nineteenth century. Broadly speaking, she works on transnational and local perspectives of various scientific disciplines.

Summary

Before the advent of radio, conceptions of the relationship between science and religion circulated through periodicals, journals, and books, influencing the worldviews of intellectuals and a wider public.

Product details

• Assisted by: Bernard Lightman (Editor), Sarah Qidwai (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Pittsburgh Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.11.2023
• EAN: 9780822947929
• ISBN: 978-0-8229-4792-9
• No. of pages: 456
• Dimensions: 164 mm x 242 mm x 35 mm
• Weight: 738 g
• Series: Sci & Culture in the Nineteent; Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works