The relationships between science and religion are about to enter a new phase in our contemporary world, as scientific knowledge has become increasingly relevant in ordinary life, beyond the institutional public spaces where it traditionally developed. The purpose of this volume is to analyze the relationships, possible articulations and contradictions between religion and science as forms of life: ways of engaging human experience that originate in particular social and cultural formations. Contributions use this theoretical and ethnographic research to explore different scientific and religious cultures in the contemporary world.
Cuprins
Introduction: Science, Religion and Forms of Life
Carles Salazar
PART I: COGNITION
Chapter 1. Maturationally Natural Cognition Impedes Professional Science and Facilitates Popular Religion
Robert N. Mc Cauley
Chapter 2. Scientific vs. Religious ‘Knowledge’ in Evolutionary Perspective
Michael Blume
Chapter 3. Magic and Ritual in an Age of Science
Jesper Sørensen
PART II: BEYOND SCIENCE
Chapter 4. Moral Employments of Scientific Thought
Timothy Jenkins
Chapter 5. The Social Life of Concepts: Public and Private ‘Knowledge’ of Scientific Creationism
Simon Coleman
Chapter 6. The Embryo, Sacred and Profane
Marit Melhuus
Chapter 7. The Religions of Science and the Sciences of Religion in Brazil.
Roger Sansi-Roca
Chapter 8. Science in Action, Religion in Thought: Catholic Charismatics’ Notions about Illness
Maria Coma
PART III: MEANING SYSTEMS
Chapter 9. On the Resilience of Superstition
João de Pina-Cabral
Chapter 10. Religion, Magic and Practical Reason: Meaning and Everyday Life in Contemporary Ireland
Tom Inglis
Chapter 11. Can the Dead Suffer Traumas? Religion and Science after the Vietnam War
Heonik Kwon
Notes on Contributors
Despre autor
Joan Bestard is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Barcelona, where he is also director of the research center on Kinship and Family. He has done research on kinship and religion and is currently conducting research on religion in Southeast Poland. His recent publication is Familias (Madrid, 2012).
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