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Religion and Science as Forms of Life : Anthropological Insights into Reason and Unreason /

Religion and Science as Forms of Life : Anthropological Insights into Reason and Unreason / ed. by Joan Bestard, Carles Salazar. - 1 online resource (238 p.)

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Science, Religion and Forms of Life -- Part I Cognition -- Chapter One. Maturationally Natural Cognition Impedes Professional Science and Facilitates Popular Religion -- Chapter Two. Scientific versus Religious ‘Knowledge’ in Evolutionary Perspective -- Chapter Three. Magic and Ritual in an Age of Science -- Part II Beyond Science -- Chapter Four. Moral Employments of Scientific Thought -- Chapter Five. The Social Life of Concepts: Public and Private ‘Knowledge’ of Scientific Creationism -- Chapter Six. The Embryo, Sacred and Profane -- Chapter Seven. The Religions of Science and the Sciences of Religion in Brazil -- Chapter Eight. Science in Action, Religion in Thought: Catholic Charismatics’ Notions about Illness -- Part III Meaning Systems -- Chapter Nine. On the Resilience of Superstition -- Chapter Ten. Religion, Magic and Practical Reason: Meaning and Everyday Life in Contemporary Ireland -- Chapter Eleven. Can the Dead Suffer Trauma? Religion and Science after the Vietnam War -- Notes on Contributors -- Index

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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.


Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.


In English.

9781782384885 9781782384892

10.1515/9781782384892 doi


Ethnology--Religious aspects.
Faith and reason.
Religion and science.
RELIGION / Religion & Science.

ancient world. anthropologist. anthropology. carles salazar. christian. christianity. contemporary. creationism. culture. ethnographic. evolution. hindu. holy. human experience. human life. humanity. islam. jew. joan bestard. judaism. knowledge. logic. magic. modern world. morality. muslim. popular religion. reason. religion. research. ritual. sacred. scholarly. science. scientific method. society. study. superstition. theory. world religions.

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