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Recent themes in the history of science and religion : historians in conversation / edited by Donald A. Yerxa.

Contributor(s): Yerxa, Donald A, 1950-
Material type: TextTextSeries: Historians in conversation: Publisher: Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, [2009]Copyright date: ©2009Description: viii, 146 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781570038709 (pbk : alk. paper); 1570038708 (pbk : alk. paper)Subject(s): Religion and science -- HistoriographyDDC classification: 201/.6509 LOC classification: BL245 | .R43 2009Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Big questions and the complex engagements of science and religion in history / Donald A. Yerxa -- Science and religion in historical perspective. Assessing the relations between science and religion / William R. Shea -- Response to William Shea / Edward J. Larson -- Comments on William Shea / Ronald L. Numbers -- Rejoinder to Numbers and Larson / William R. Shea -- Complexity and the history of science and religion. Science, religion, and historical complexity / John Hedley Brooke -- Reply to Brooke / William R. Shea -- Science, religion, and the cartographies of complexity / David N. Livingstone -- Response / John Hedley Brooke --
Herbert Butterfield and the scientific revolution. Reassessing the Butterfield thesis / Peter Harrison -- Response to Harrison / William R. Shea -- The Butterfield thesis and the scientific revolution : comments on Peter Harrison / David C. Lindberg -- Response to Harrison : Butterfield's Origins of modern science and the scientific revolution / Charles C. Gillispie -- Rejoinder to Gillespie, Lindberg, and Shea / Peter Harrison -- Progress in history? Progress in history / Bruce Mazlish -- Progress : directionality or betterment? / David Christian -- Progress as parochialism / J.C.D. Clark -- Progress in history / Robert E. Lucas, Jr. -- Contingency, necessity, teleology, and progress : reply to Mazlish / Aviezer Tucker -- Rejoinder / Bruce Mazlish.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Big questions and the complex engagements of science and religion in history / Donald A. Yerxa -- Science and religion in historical perspective. Assessing the relations between science and religion / William R. Shea -- Response to William Shea / Edward J. Larson -- Comments on William Shea / Ronald L. Numbers -- Rejoinder to Numbers and Larson / William R. Shea -- Complexity and the history of science and religion. Science, religion, and historical complexity / John Hedley Brooke -- Reply to Brooke / William R. Shea -- Science, religion, and the cartographies of complexity / David N. Livingstone -- Response / John Hedley Brooke --

Herbert Butterfield and the scientific revolution. Reassessing the Butterfield thesis / Peter Harrison -- Response to Harrison / William R. Shea -- The Butterfield thesis and the scientific revolution : comments on Peter Harrison / David C. Lindberg -- Response to Harrison : Butterfield's Origins of modern science and the scientific revolution / Charles C. Gillispie -- Rejoinder to Gillespie, Lindberg, and Shea / Peter Harrison -- Progress in history? Progress in history / Bruce Mazlish -- Progress : directionality or betterment? / David Christian -- Progress as parochialism / J.C.D. Clark -- Progress in history / Robert E. Lucas, Jr. -- Contingency, necessity, teleology, and progress : reply to Mazlish / Aviezer Tucker -- Rejoinder / Bruce Mazlish.

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