Critical Approaches to Science and Religion
This book offers a new direction for scholarship on science and religion that centers social, political, and ecological concerns. Featuring a diverse array of contributors, it draws on three vital schools of thought: critical race theory, feminist and queer theory, and postcolonial theory.
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| Language: | English |
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Columbia University Press
2023
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| Summary: | This book offers a new direction for scholarship on science and religion that centers social, political, and ecological concerns. Featuring a diverse array of contributors, it draws on three vital schools of thought: critical race theory, feminist and queer theory, and postcolonial theory. Intro -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction, by Myrna Perez Sheldon, Terence Keel, and Ahmed Ragab -- Part I. Values -- Introduction, by Terence Keel, Ahmed Ragab, and Myrna Perez Sheldon -- 1. Scripture of False Smiles: Scholarship and Lying with Erving Goffman, by Kathryn Lofton -- 2. Nihilism, Race, and the Critical Study of Science and Religion, by Terence Keel -- 3. A Feminist Theology of Abortion, by Myrna Perez Sheldon -- 4. Can Originalism Save Bioethics?, by Osagie K. Obasogie -- Part II. Boundaries -- Introduction, by Myrna Perez Sheldon, Terence Keel, and Ahmed Ragab -- 5. Spiriting the Johnstons: Producing Science and Religion Under Settler Colonial Rule, by Tisa Wenger -- 6. Dark Gods in the Age of Light: The Lightbulb, the Japanese Deification of Thomas Edison, and the Entangled Constructions of Religion and Science, by Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm -- 7. Questioning the Sacred Cow: Science, Religion, and Race in the United States and India, by Cassie Adcock -- 8. "And God Knows Best": Knowledge, Expertise, and Trust in the Postcolonial Web-Sphere, by Ahmed Ragab -- Part III. Narratives -- Introduction, by Ahmed Ragab, Terence Keel, and Myrna Perez Sheldon -- 9. Secular Grace in the Age of Environmentalism, by Erika Lorraine Milam -- 10. Performing Polygenism: Science, Religion, and Race in the Enlightenment, by Suman Seth -- 11. Out of Africa: Where Faith, Race, and Science Collide, by Joseph Graves Jr. -- Part IV. Coherence -- Introduction, by Ahmed Ragab, Terence Keel, and Myrna Perez Sheldon -- 12. Kānaka Maoli Voyaging Technology and Geography Beyond Colonial Difference, by Eli Nelson -- 13. Speculation Is Not a Metaphor: More than Varieties of Cryobiological Experience, by Joanna Radin -- 14. Maroon Science: Knowledge, Secrecy, and Crime in Jamaica, by Katharine Gerbner. |
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| ISBN: | 0231556543 |