1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451207003321

Autore

Barnes Michael Horace

Titolo

Stages of thought [[electronic resource] ] : the co-evolution of religious thought and science / / Michael Horace Barnes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2000

ISBN

1-280-83414-5

0-19-535083-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (345 p.)

Disciplina

215

291.1/75

Soggetti

Religion and science

Religion and science - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 298-322) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; 1 Culture and Cognition; 2 Addressing the Critics; 3 Cognitive Styles in Primitive Cultures; 4 Archaic Thought, Preliterate and Literate; 5 The Axial Age and the Classical Style of Thought; 6 Philosophy, Religion, and Science in Western Antiquity; 7 The Decline and Recovery of Classical Rationality in the West; 8 Early Modern Models of Reality in Science and Religion; 9 The Method of Modern Empirical Science; 10 Religious Responses to Modern Science; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In Stages of Thought, Michael Barnes examines a pattern of cognitive development that has evolved over thousands of years--a pattern manifest in both science and religion. He describes how the major world cultures built upon our natural human language skills to add literacy, logic, and, now, a highly critical self-awareness. In tracing the histories of both scientific and religious thought, Barnes shows why we think the way that we do today. Although religious and scientific modes of thought are often portrayed as contradictory-one is highly rational while the other appeals to tradition and fa



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910789508103321

Titolo

Geographers . Volume 28 [[electronic resource] ] : biobibliographical studies / / Hayden Lorimer and Charles W.J. Withers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[S.l.], : Continuum, 2009

ISBN

1-4742-2714-7

1-283-20649-8

9786613206497

1-4411-5726-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (189 p.)

Collana

Geographers : biobibliographical studies

Altri autori (Persone)

LorimerHayden

WithersCharles W. J

Disciplina

910.922

Soggetti

Geographers

Geography - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Peter Heylyn (1599-1662) -- Gudmund hatt (1884-1960) -- Tibor Mendol (1905-1966) -- Koji Iuzuka (1906-1970) -- Richard John Chorley (1927-2002) -- J. W. Karl Oestreich (1873-1947) -- Charles Patrick Daly (1816-1899) -- Marion Isabel Newbigin (1869-1968) -- Jacqueline Beaujeu-Garnier (1917-1995) -- Hugh Clapperton (1788-1827) --

Sommario/riassunto

The Geographers Bio-bibliographical Series Volume 28 includes essays on Dick Chorley, the influential geomorphologist, Charles P. Daly, long-serving president of the American Geographical Society, Marion Newbigin, one of the leading women geographers of the early twentieth century and Peter Heyleyn, early modern humanist, historian and geographical author.