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This book explains the philosophical and historical concepts that shape current debates about science and religion. It also considers some of the themes and issues that have become more prominent in the past decade, such as science denial, climate change and environmentalism, and religion and public health - including responses to Covid-19.

 

Reveals how the debate between theological and scientific argument has long been fuelled by complex cultural and political contexts

Explains the philosophical concepts that shape current debates and how they developed through history

Examines landmark episodes in science and religion history, including the Galileo affair, the Scopes ¿Monkey¿ trial, and the Covid-19 pandemic

Discusses recent developments in global affairs and public policy and how they are affected by science and religion

Includes perspectives from non-Christian religions, including the influence of colonialism and postcolonialism on the global spread of science-religion discourse

Part of the Very Short introductions series - over ten million copies sold worldwide

New to this edition

 

New edition includes detailed discussion of contemporary themes and issues, such as science denial, climate change and environmentalism, and religion and public health

Provides a broader worldwide perspective, giving greater attention to science-religion issues outside of Europe and North America

Includes new material on the influences of missionary and colonialist history on science and religion discourses today.

 

Thomas Dixon, Professor of History, Queen Mary University of London, and Adam Shapiro, AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow

 

<b>Thomas Dixon</b> is Professor of History at Queen Mary University of London. He was the author of the first edition of this Very Short Introduction, which won the Dingle Prize in 2009, awarded biennially by the British Society for the History of Science to the best book for a wide readership. He is also the author of several other titles, including How to Get a First: The Essential Guide to Academic Success (2004), and Weeping Britannia: Portrait of a Nation in Tears (2015).

 

<b> Adam R. Shapiro</b> is a historian of science and religion. He taught at universities in the U.S., Canada and the U.K. for over a decade before accepting a AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellowship and shifting to work in public policy and science communication. He is the author of Trying Biology: The Scopes Trial, Textbooks, and the Antievolution Movement in American Schools (2013) as well as several articles on science and religion from the late eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries.

 

Table of Contents

1:What are science-religion debates really about?

2:Galileo and the philosophy of science

3:God and nature

4:Darwin and evolution

5:Mind and morality

6:The worlds of science and religion

References and further reading

Index