Science, Religion, and the Protestant Tradition (inbunden)
Format
Häftad (Trade paperback)
Språk
Engelska
Serie
Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century
Antal sidor
368
Utgivningsdatum
2024-04-30
Förlag
University of Pittsburgh Press
Originalspråk
Engelska
Dimensioner
36 x 229 x 152 mm
Vikt
454 g
ISBN
9780822967415

Science, Religion, and the Protestant Tradition

Retracing the Origins of Conflict

Häftad,  Engelska, 2024-04-30
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The story of the "conflict thesis" between science and religion-the notion of perennial conflict or warfare between the two-is part of our modern self-understanding. As the story goes, John William Draper (1811-1882) and Andrew Dickson White (1832-1918) constructed dramatic narratives in the nineteenth century that cast religion as the relentless enemy of scientific progress. And yet, despite its resilience in popular culture, historians today have largely debunked the conflict thesis. Unravelling its origins, James Ungureanu argues that Draper and White actually hoped their narratives would preserve religious belief. For them, science was ultimately a scapegoat for a much larger and more important argument dating back to the Protestant Reformation, where one theological tradition was pitted against another-a more progressive, liberal, and diffusive Christianity against a more traditional, conservative, and orthodox Christianity. By the mid-nineteenth century, narratives of conflict between "science and religion" were largely deployed between contending theological schools of thought. However, these narratives were later appropriated by secularists, freethinkers, and atheists as weapons against all religion. By revisiting its origins, development, and popularization, Ungureanu ultimately reveals that the "conflict thesis" was just one of the many unintended consequences of the Protestant Reformation.
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James C. Ungureanu is Adjunct Professor for Intellectual Foundations at Carthage College in Wisconsin. He also serves as unit coordinator of religion and science for the Upper Midwest Region of the American Academy of Religion.