03737nam 2200637 a 450 991045876310332120200520144314.01-282-90178-897866129017820-226-06857-910.7208/9780226068572(CKB)2670000000060811(EBL)616029(OCoLC)688242186(SSID)ssj0000426795(PQKBManifestationID)11286966(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000426795(PQKBWorkID)10390544(PQKB)10779693(MiAaPQ)EBC616029(DE-B1597)523612(OCoLC)1027584522(DE-B1597)9780226068572(Au-PeEL)EBL616029(CaPaEBR)ebr10431304(CaONFJC)MIL290178(EXLCZ)99267000000006081120010201d2001 uy 0engur||#||||||||txtccrReconciling science and religion[electronic resource] the debate in early-twentieth-century Britain /Peter J. BowlerChicago University of Chicago Press20011 online resource (494 p.)Science and its conceptual foundationsDescription based upon print version of record.0-226-06859-5 0-226-06858-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.pt. 1. The sciences and religion -- pt. 2. The churches and science -- pt. 3. The wider debate.Although much has been written about the vigorous debates over science and religion in the Victorian era, little attention has been paid to their continuing importance in early twentieth-century Britain. Reconciling Science and Religion provides a comprehensive survey of the interplay between British science and religion from the late nineteenth century to World War II. Peter J. Bowler argues that unlike the United States, where a strong fundamentalist opposition to evolutionism developed in the 1920's (most famously expressed in the Scopes "monkey trial" of 1925), in Britain there was a concerted effort to reconcile science and religion. Intellectually conservative scientists championed the reconciliation and were supported by liberal theologians in the Free Churches and the Church of England, especially the Anglican "Modernists." Popular writers such as Julian Huxley and George Bernard Shaw sought to create a non-Christian religion similar in some respects to the Modernist position. Younger scientists and secularists-including Rationalists such as H. G. Wells and the Marxists-tended to oppose these efforts, as did conservative Christians, who saw the liberal position as a betrayal of the true spirit of their religion. With the increased social tensions of the 1930's, as the churches moved toward a neo-orthodoxy unfriendly to natural theology and biologists adopted the "Modern Synthesis" of genetics and evolutionary theory, the proposed reconciliation fell apart. Because the tensions between science and religion-and efforts at reconciling the two-are still very much with us today, Bowler's book will be important for everyone interested in these issues.Science and its conceptual foundations.Religion and scienceGreat BritainHistory20th centuryElectronic books.Religion and scienceHistory215/.0941/09041Bowler Peter J709948MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910458763103321Reconciling science and religion2036843UNINA