Reflections from the Field
Published by Oxford University Press, on behalf of the American Academy of Religion. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com - AS A SCIENTIST AND ENGINEER whose work focuses on climate change, it was of great interest to me to read the contributions by schol...
| Subtitles: | Roundtable on climate destiabilization and the study of religion |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
[2015]
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Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Year: 2015, Volume: 83, Issue: 2, Pages: 432-436 |
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| Summary: | Published by Oxford University Press, on behalf of the American Academy of Religion. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com - AS A SCIENTIST AND ENGINEER whose work focuses on climate change, it was of great interest to me to read the contributions by scholars of religion in this roundtable discussion. I am pleased to offer a few remarks in response, prefaced by the fact that I teach at a Jesuit university. So I am well aware of the historical divide between religion and science, each using their own specific methods to establish truths. Religion, as I understand it, is usually rooted in faith and scripture, and therefore does not require irrefutable proof, whereas science assumes that God is irrelevant to our understanding of nature and adheres to rigorous and repeatable scientific methods to establish its theories and hypotheses. Each explores different aspects of life and... |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4585 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: American Academy of Religion, Journal of the American Academy of Religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jaarel/lfv027 |