Rethinking the Secular: Science, Technology, and Religion Today

Abstract. Contemporary tensions between science and religion cannot simply be seen as a manifestation of an eternal tension between reason and revelation. Instead, the modern secular, including science and technology, needs to be seen as a distinctive historical phenomenon, produced and still radica...

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Main Author: Szerszynski, Bronislaw (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Open Library of Humanities$s2024- 2005
In: Zygon
Year: 2005, Volume: 40, Issue: 4, Pages: 813-822
Further subjects:B Western religious history
B Technology
B John Caiazza
B the secular
B Science
B Religion
B the sacred
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