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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787403503321

Titolo

Religion and science as forms of life : anthropological insights into reason and unreason / / edited by Carles Salazar and Joan Bestard

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York ; ; Oxford, England : , : berghahn, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-78920-084-9

1-78238-489-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (238 p.)

Classificazione

BG 3540

Disciplina

201.65

201/.65

Soggetti

Ethnology - Religious aspects

Religion and science

Faith and reason

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

""Religion and Science as Forms of Life""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction â€? Science, Religion and Forms of Life""; ""Part I â€? Cognition""; ""Chapter One â€? Maturationally Natural Cognition Impedes Professional Science  and Facilitates Popular""; ""Chapter Two â€? Scientific versus Religious â€?Knowledgeâ€? in Evolutionary Perspective""; ""Chapter Three â€? Magic and Ritual in an Age of Science""; ""Part II â€? Beyond Science""; ""Chapter Four â€? Moral Employments of Scientific Thought""; ""Chapter Five â€? The Social Life of Concepts""; ""Chapter Six â€? 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""; ""Part III � Meaning Systems""; ""Chapter Nine � On the Resilience of Superstition""; ""Chapter Ten � Religion, Magic and Practical Reason""; ""Chapter Eleven � Can the Dead Suffer Trauma?""; ""Notes on Contributors""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

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 exploredifferent scientific and religi