The Edge of Reason?: Science and Religion in Modern Society

The Edge of Reason?: Science and Religion in Modern Society

by Alex Bentley (Editor)

Synopsis

Should scientists challenge religious beliefs in modern society? This book gives voice to those scientist and theologians whose experience holds direct relevance in the confrontational science and religion debate.Confrontation between science and religion has defined much public debate about religion in recent years, most lately in bestsellers portraying a clash between scientists and religious believers, such as Richard Dawkin's The God Delusion and Sam Harris' The End of Faith or Letter to a Christian Nation . But what does this clash mean for society? This collection of essays gives voice to social scientists, natural scientists and theologians whose experience holds direct relevance on these major issues, and encourages a new, more forgiving dialogue between these two huge forces in modern society.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
Edition: illustrated edition
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Published: 22 Sep 2008

ISBN 10: 1847062180
ISBN 13: 9781847062185

Media Reviews
Systems of logic and belief never split into neat oppositions between science and religion, but are mediated by cultural, philosophical, and contextual forces that shape these systems - all of them - as reasonable and natural. It is the making and mobilisation of the givens of human knowledge, rather than its perfection to grasp a preordained cosmology, that must be understood if we are to break free of the impasse that has come to prevail between Creationists and Evolutionists, as revealed in this fascinating dialogue between leading anthropologists, archaeologists, philosophers, theologians, biologists and physicists. Inter-disciplinarity at its best!
Professor Ash Amin, Director of the Institute of Advanced Study, Durham University, UK
Author Bio
Dr Alex Bentley is Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at Durham University, UK.