Magisteria The Entangled Histories of Science & Religion

Most things you 'know' about science and religion are myths or half-truths that grew up in the last years of the nineteenth century and remain widespread today.'A deeply researched history of the interplay between the two ways of understanding the world.' ECONOMIST, BEST BOOKS OF 2023The true history of science and religion is a human one. It's about the role of religion in inspiring, and strangling, science before the scientific revolution. It's about the sincere but eccentric faith and the quiet, creeping doubts of the most brilliant scientists in history - Galileo, Newton, Faraday, Darwin, Maxwell, Einstein. Above all it's about the question of what it means to be human and who gets to say - a question that is more urgent in the twenty-first century than ever before.From eighth-century Baghdad to the frontiers of AI today, via medieval Europe, nineteenth-century India and Soviet Russia, Magisteria sheds new light on this complex historical landscape. Rejecting the thesis that science and religion are inevitably at war, Nicholas Spencer illuminates a compelling and troubled relationship that has definitively shaped human history.

Product details

• Authors: Nicholas Spencer
• Publisher: Oneworld
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 01.01.2024
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works
• EAN: 9780861547302
• ISBN: 978-0-86154-730-2
• Pages: 467
• Dimensions (packing): 12.9 x 20 x 3.6 cm
• Subjects: PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, Darwin, Evolution, Galileo, PHILOSOPHY / Religious, SCIENCE / History, HISTORY / Civilization, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, RELIGION / History, RELIGION / Islam / Rituals & Practice, Richard Dawkins, Philosophy of Mind, HISTORY / World, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, RELIGION / Christianity / History, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, RELIGION / Philosophy, RELIGION / Religion & Science, Philosophy of Science, Steven Pinker, General & world history, Christian life & practice, History of Religion, Church, History of Science, Social and cultural history, Enlightenment, General and world history, Philosophy of religion, Christian life and practice, RELIGION / Christian Living / General, Religion and science, Religion & science, Western philosophy: Enlightenment, Islamic Life & Practice, Islamic life and practice, Religious Freedom, His Dark Materials, Atheism, christopher hitchens, Book Banning, living with the gods neil macgregor, Dominion Tom Holland, god is not great, the god delusion, the magic of reality, new atheism, christopher hitchins, Inventing the Individual Larry Siedentop, the secret history of science and religion, Religion and the Decline of Magic Keith Thomas, Out of Our Minds Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Scopes Monkey Trial, The Passion of the Western Mind Richard Tarnas