Science and Religion - (Canto Classics) by John Hedley Brooke (Paperback)

Number of Pages: 576
Genre: Religion + Beliefs
Sub-Genre: Psychology of Religion
Series Title: Canto Classics
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Age Range: Adult
Author: John Hedley Brooke
Language: English

About the Book

Offers an introduction and critical guide to the relationship between scientific thought and religious belief.

Book Synopsis

John Hedley Brooke offers an introduction and critical guide to one of the most fascinating and enduring issues in the development of the modern world: the relationship between scientific thought and religious belief. It is common knowledge that in western societies there have been periods of crisis when new science has threatened established authority. The trial of Galileo in 1633 and the uproar caused by Darwin's Origin of Species (1859) are two of the most famous examples. Taking account of recent scholarship in the history of science, Brooke takes a fresh look at these and similar episodes, showing that science and religion have been mutually relevant in so rich a variety of ways that no simple generalizations are possible.

Review Quotes

'... arguably the most important historical analysis of science and religion since Andrew Dickson White's History of the Warfare of Science and Theology in Christendom (1898).' Ronald L. Numbers, Metascience

'[John Hedley Brooke] has given us a brilliant, perceptive, subtle, nuanced analysis, which will permanently alter the way scholars and the informed lay public view the relations of science and religion.' David C. Lindberg, Metascience