Rethinking History, Science, and Religion: An Exploration of Conflict and the Complexity Principle (2019)
Lightman, Bernard V. (Editor)
University of Pittsburgh Press
Physical Details: 324 pp.
Language: English
The historical interface between science and religion was depicted as an unbridgeable conflict in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Starting in the 1970s, such a conception was too simplistic and not at all accurate when considering the totality of that relationship. This volume evaluates the utility of the “complexity principle” in past, present, and future scholarship. First put forward by historian John Brooke over twenty-five years ago, the complexity principle rejects the idea of a single thesis of conflict or harmony, or integration or separation, between science and religion. Rethinking History, Science, and Religion brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars at the forefront of their fields to consider whether new approaches to the study of science and culture—such as recent developments in research on science and the history of publishing, the global history of science, the geographical examination of space and place, and science and media—have cast doubt on the complexity thesis, or if it remains a serviceable historiographical model.
...MoreReview James C. Ungureanu (2021) Review of "Rethinking History, Science, and Religion: An Exploration of Conflict and the Complexity Principle". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 382-388).
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