Religion and Science as Forms of Life

Anthropological Insights Into Reason and Unreason
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-78920-084-3
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 238 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 351 g

The relationships between science and religion are about to enter a new phase in our contemporary world, as scientific knowledge has become increasingly relevant in ordinary life, beyond the institutional public spaces where it traditionally developed. The purpose of this volume is to analyze the relationships, possible articulations and contradictions between religion and science as forms of life: ways of engaging human experience that originate in particular social and cultural formations. Contributions use this theoretical and ethnographic research to explore different scientific and religious cultures in the contemporary world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Salazar, Carles

Bestard, Joan

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Religion & Wissenschaft
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religion & Wissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Science, Religion and Forms of Life

Carles Salazar

PART I: COGNITION

Chapter 1. Maturationally Natural Cognition Impedes Professional Science and Facilitates Popular Religion

Robert N. McCauley

Chapter 2. Scientific vs. Religious ‘Knowledge’ in Evolutionary Perspective

Michael Blume

Chapter 3. Magic and Ritual in an Age of Science

Jesper Sørensen

PART II: BEYOND SCIENCE

Chapter 4. Moral Employments of Scientific Thought

Timothy Jenkins

Chapter 5. The Social Life of Concepts: Public and Private 'Knowledge' of Scientific Creationism

Simon Coleman

Chapter 6. The Embryo, Sacred and Profane

Marit Melhuus

Chapter 7. The Religions of Science and the Sciences of Religion in Brazil.

Roger Sansi-Roca

Chapter 8. Science in Action, Religion in Thought: Catholic Charismatics’ Notions about Illness

Maria Coma

PART III: MEANING SYSTEMS

Chapter 9. On the Resilience of Superstition

João de Pina-Cabral

Chapter 10. Religion, Magic and Practical Reason: Meaning and Everyday Life in Contemporary Ireland

Tom Inglis

Chapter 11. Can the Dead Suffer Traumas? Religion and Science after the Vietnam War

Heonik Kwon



Notes on Contributors

Über Autor(innen)

Bestard, Joan
Joan Bestard is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Barcelona, where he is also director of the research center on Kinship and Family. He has done research on kinship and religion and is currently conducting research on religion in Southeast Poland. His recent publication is Familias (Madrid, 2012).

Salazar, Carles
Carles Salazar is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Lleida. He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge and has carried out ethnographic fieldwork on cooperation, religion and kinship. His publications include Anthropology and Sexual Morality. A Theoretical Investigation (Berghahn, 2006) and European Kinship in the Age of Biotechnology, co-edited with Jeanette Edwards (Berghahn, 2009).

Carles Salazar is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Lleida. He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge and has carried out ethnographic fieldwork on cooperation, religion and kinship. His publications include Anthropology and Sexual Morality. A Theoretical Investigation (Berghahn, 2006) and European Kinship in the Age of Biotechnology, co-edited with Jeanette Edwards (Berghahn, 2009).