Προσθήκη στα αγαπημένα
Critical Approaches to Science and Religion offers a new direction for scholarship on science and religion that examines social, political, and ecological concerns long part of the field but never properly centered. The works that make up this volume are not preoccupied with traditional philosophical or theological issues. Instead, the book draws on three vital schools of thought: critical race theory, feminist and queer theory, and postcolonial theory. Featuring a diverse array of contributors, it develops critical perspectives by examining how histories of empire, slavery, colonialism, and patriarchy have shaped the many relationships between science and religion in the modern era. In so doing, this book lays the groundwork for scholars interested in speaking directly to matters such as climate change, structural racism, immigration, health care, reproductive justice, and sexual identity.
Acknowledgments
Introduction, by Myrna Perez Sheldon, Terence Keel, and Ahmed Ragab
Part I. Values
Introduction, by Terence Keel, Ahmed Ragab, and Myrna Perez Sheldon
1. Scripture of False Smiles: Scholarship and Lying with Erving Goffman, by Kathryn Lofton
2. Nihilism, Race, and the Critical Study of Science and Religion, by Terence Keel
3. A Feminist Theology of Abortion, by Myrna Perez Sheldon
4. Can Originalism Save Bioethics?, by Osagie K. Obasogie
Part II. Boundaries
Introduction, by Myrna Perez Sheldon, Terence Keel, and Ahmed Ragab
5. Spiriting the Johnstons: Producing Science and Religion Under Settler Colonial Rule, by Tisa Wenger
6. Dark Gods in the Age of Light: The Lightbulb, the Japanese Deification of Thomas Edison, and the Entangled Constructions of Religion and Science, by Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm
7. Questioning the Sacred Cow: Science, Religion, and Race in the United States and India, by Cassie Adcock
8. “And God Knows Best”: Knowledge, Expertise, and Trust in the Postcolonial Web-Sphere, by Ahmed Ragab
Part III. Narratives
Introduction, by Ahmed Ragab, Terence Keel, and Myrna Perez Sheldon
9. Secular Grace in the Age of Environmentalism, by Erika Lorraine Milam
10. Performing Polygenism: Science, Religion, and Race in the Enlightenment, by Suman Seth
11. Out of Africa: Where Faith, Race, and Science Collide, by Joseph Graves Jr.
Part IV. Coherence
Introduction, by Ahmed Ragab, Terence Keel, and Myrna Perez Sheldon
12. Kānaka Maoli Voyaging Technology and Geography Beyond Colonial Difference, by Eli Nelson
13. Speculation Is Not a Metaphor: More than Varieties of Cryobiological Experience, by Joanna Radin
14. Maroon Science: Knowledge, Secrecy, and Crime in Jamaica, by Katharine Gerbner
15. Obeah Simplified? Scientism, Magic, and the Problem of Universals, by J. Brent Crosson
Conclusion, by Myrna Perez Sheldon, Terence Keel, and Ahmed Ragab
Index
Περιγραφή
Critical Approaches to Science and Religion offers a new direction for scholarship on science and religion that examines social, political, and ecological concerns long part of the field but never properly centered. The works that make up this volume are not preoccupied with traditional philosophical or theological issues. Instead, the book draws on three vital schools of thought: critical race theory, feminist and queer theory, and postcolonial theory. Featuring a diverse array of contributors, it develops critical perspectives by examining how histories of empire, slavery, colonialism, and patriarchy have shaped the many relationships between science and religion in the modern era. In so doing, this book lays the groundwork for scholars interested in speaking directly to matters such as climate change, structural racism, immigration, health care, reproductive justice, and sexual identity.
