Confronting Religious Denial of Science: Christian Humanism and the Moral Imagination - Couverture souple

Wallace, Catherine M.

 
9781498228749: Confronting Religious Denial of Science: Christian Humanism and the Moral Imagination
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1498228747 ISBN 13 : 9781498228749
Editeur : Cascade Books, 2016

Synopsis

Confronting Religious Denial of Science: Christian Humanism and the Moral Imagination traces the cultural backstory of contemporary conflicts between biblical literalists who oppose evolution and "New Atheists" who insist that religion is so pernicious it should be outlawed, if not exterminated. That's a clash of fundamentalisms. It's a zero-sum game derived from high Victorian misunderstanding of both religion and science. The God whom science supposedly replaces is the Engineer Almighty sitting at his keyboard, controlling every event on earth. But that's not a viable concept of God. Far better, Wallace argues, to understand Christianity in Clifford Geertz's terms as a system of symbols that both constitutes a worldview and, according to David Sloan Wilson, encourages prosocial behavior. That reframing makes it possible to reclaim what biblical scholars have said for decades: the miracles of Jesus were confrontational symbolic actions. They contradicted the political status quo in colonial Palestine, not the laws of biology. Prayer, she explains, is not magical thinking. It's a creative, highly disciplined introspective process, most familiar to many people in forms like mindfulness meditation. Wallace offers an intriguing exploration of issues that believers seldom discuss in ways that make sense to the religiously unaffiliated.

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À propos de l?auteur

Catherine Miles Wallace is a cultural historian on the faculty of the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. She is the author of For Fidelity: How Intimacy and Commitment Enrich Our Lives (Knopf, 1998).

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Éditeur
Cascade Books
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1498228747
ISBN 13 
9781498228749
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
138
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  1498288537 ISBN 13 :  9781498288538
Editeur : Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2016
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