Jesuits and the Book of Nature

Science and Education in Modern Portugal
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-38235-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 25, 282 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 612 g

Reihe: Jesuit Studies

Jesuits and the Book of Nature: Science and Education in Modern Portugal offers an account of the Jesuits’ contributions to science and education after the restoration of the Society of Jesus in Portugal in 1858. As well as promoting an education grounded on an “alliance between religion and science,” the Portuguese Jesuits founded a scientific journal that played a significant role in the consolidation of taxonomy, plant breeding, biochemistry, and molecular genetics. In this book, Francisco Malta Romeiras argues that the priority the Jesuits placed on the teaching and practice of science was not only a way of continuing a centennial tradition but should also be seen as response to the adverse anticlerical milieu in which the restoration of the Society of Jesus took place.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Malta Romeiras, Francisco

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Religiöse Institutionen & Gemeinschaften, Klerus, Mönchstum
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Christliche Orden und Vereinigungen, Ordensgeschichte, Mönchstum
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik Naturwissenschaften, Mathematik (Unterricht & Didaktik)
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften (Unterricht & Didaktik)
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

List of Figures and Tables

Introduction

1 Jesuit Science and Education: A Brief History

2 The Pombaline Expulsion and the Building of Anti-Jesuitism

3 Carlos Rademaker and the Restoration of the Society of Jesus in Portugal

4 For the Greater Credibility: Science and Education in Modern Portugal

5 The Republican Exile and the Confiscation of the Natural History Collections

6 The Journal Brotéria, the Book of Nature, and the Greater Glory of God

7 The Journal Brotéria: Vulgarização científica and the Popularization of Science, Technology, and Medicine

8 Taxonomy, Cytogenetics, and Plant Breeding in the Early Years of Estado Novo

9 New Lenses to Read the Book of Nature: Biochemistry, Molecular Genetics, and Bioethics

Conclusion

Appendix

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Francisco Malta Romeiras, PhD (2014), is a research fellow at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Lisbon. He has published widely on Jesuit science and education, including Jesuítas em Portugal depois de Pombal: História ilustrada (Cascais: Lucerna, 2018).