Medicine, Science, and Religion in Historical Context – serie
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Who Shall Take Care of Our Sick?
Roman Catholic Sisters and the Development of Catholic Hospitals in New York City
Inbunden, 2005
611 kr
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This rich history chronicles the prominent role of Catholic women religious in establishing the hospitals at the core of New York City's extensive Catholic medical network. Beginning with the opening of St. Vincent's Hospital in 1849, Bernadette McCauley relates how determined and pragmatic women …
God—or Gorilla
Images of Evolution in the Jazz Age
Inbunden, 2008
485 kr
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As scholars debate the most appropriate way to teach evolutionary theory, Constance Clark provides an intriguing reflection on similar debates in the not-too-distant past. Set against the backdrop of the Jazz Age, God-or Gorilla explores the efforts of biologists to explain evolution to a confused …
Adam's Ancestors
Race, Religion, and the Politics of Human Origins
Häftad, 2011
406 kr
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Although the idea that all human beings are descended from Adam is a long-standing conviction in the West, another version of this narrative exists: human beings inhabited the Earth before, or alongside, Adam, and their descendants still occupy the planet. In this engaging and provocative work, …
Science and Eastern Orthodoxy
From the Greek Fathers to the Age of Globalization
Inbunden, 2012
702 kr
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People have pondered conflicts between science and religion since at least the time of Christ. The millennia-long debate is well documented in the literature in the history and philosophy of science and religion in Western civilization. Science and Eastern Orthodoxy is a departure from that vast …
God—or Gorilla
Images of Evolution in the Jazz Age
Häftad, 2013
379 kr
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As scholars debate the most appropriate way to teach evolutionary theory, Constance Areson Clark provides an intriguing reflection on similar debates in the not-too-distant past. Set against the backdrop of the Jazz Age, God-or Gorilla explores the efforts of biologists to explain evolution to a …
Dealing with Darwin
Place, Politics, and Rhetoric in Religious Engagements with Evolution
Inbunden, 2014
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Using place, politics, and rhetoric as analytical tools, historical geographer David N. Livingstone investigates how religious communities sharing a Scots Presbyterian heritage engaged with Darwin and Darwinism at the turn of the twentieth century. His findings, presented as the prestigious Gifford …
Creationism in Europe
Av Stefaan Blancke, Hans Henrik Hjermitslev m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
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For decades, the creationist movement was primarily situated in the United States. Then, in the 1970s, American creationists found their ideas welcomed abroad, first in Australia and New Zealand, then in Korea, India, South Africa, Brazil, and elsewhere - including Europe, where creationism plays …
Righting America at the Creation Museum
Av Susan L. Trollinger, William Vance Trollinger Jr.
Inbunden, 2016
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On May 28, 2007, the Creation Museum opened in Petersburg, Kentucky. Aimed at scientifically demonstrating that the universe was created less than ten thousand years ago by a Judeo-Christian god, the museum is hugely popular, attracting millions of visitors over the past eight years. Surrounded by …
Physico-theology
Religion and Science in Europe, 1650–1750
Av Ann Blair, Kaspar von Greyerz
Inbunden, 2020
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This first book-length study of physico-theology questions the widespread notion of a steadily advancing early modern separation of religion and science.Beginning around 1650, the emergence of a number of new scientific concepts, methods, and instruments challenged existing syntheses of science and …
Geographies of Knowledge
Science, Scale, and Spatiality in the Nineteenth Century
Av Robert J. Mayhew, Charles W. J. Withers
Inbunden, 2020
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A path-breaking exploration of how space, place, and scale influenced the production and circulation of scientific knowledge in the nineteenth century.Over the past twenty years, scholars have increasingly questioned not just historical presumptions about the putative rise of modern science during …
Protestant Modernist Pamphlets
Science and Religion in the Scopes Era
Inbunden, 2024
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A critical edition of ten rare pamphlets on science and religion published from 1922–1931 by the University of Chicago Divinity School.In the years surrounding the Scopes trial in 1925, liberal Protestant scientists, theologians, and clergy sought to diminish opposition to evolution and to persuade …
Christian Science on Trial
Religious Healing in America
Inbunden, 2003
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In Christian Science on Trial, historian Rennie B. Schoepflin shows how Christian Science healing became a viable alternative to medicine at the end of the nineteenth century. Christian Scientists did not simply evangelize for their religious beliefs; they engaged in a healing business that offered …
Negotiating Darwin
The Vatican Confronts Evolution, 1877–1902
Av Mariano Artigas, Thomas F. Glick m. fl.
Inbunden, 2006
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Drawing on primary sources made available to scholars only after the archives of the Holy Office were unsealed in 1998, Negotiating Darwin chronicles how the Vatican reacted when six Catholics-five clerics and one layman-tried to integrate evolution and Christianity in the decades following the …
Helping the Good Shepherd
Pastoral Counselors in a Psychotherapeutic Culture, 1925–1975
Inbunden, 2009
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This history of Protestant pastoral counseling in America examines the role of pastoral counselors in the construction and articulation of a liberal moral sensibility. Analyzing the relationship between religion and science in the twentieth century, Susan E. Myers-Shirk locates this sensibility in …
Chosen Calling
Jews in Science in the Twentieth Century
Inbunden, 2014
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Scholars have struggled for decades to explain why Jews have succeeded extravagantly in modern science. A variety of controversial theories - from such intellects as C. P. Snow, Norbert Wiener, and Nathaniel Weyl - have been promoted. Snow hypothesized an evolved genetic predisposition to …
Scientific Spirit of American Humanism
Inbunden, 2020
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The story of how prominent liberal intellectuals reshaped American religious and secular institutions to promote a more democratic, science-centered society.Winner of the Morris D. Forkosch Award for Best Book by the Center for InquiryRecent polls show that a quarter of Americans claim to have no …
