Rewriting the Book of Nature: Kabbalah and the Metaphors of Contemporary Life Sciences
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, it seems as if biology, genetics, and the ‘life sciences’ are in normative control of cultural discourses regarding nature, the body, and the cosmos. This article addresses religious and esoteric semantics that underlie modern biology. The ‘deciphering’...
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Equinox Publ.
2008
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Journal for the study of religion, nature and culture
Year: 2008, Volume: 2, Issue: 4, Pages: 419-442 |
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