LEADER 03737nam 2200637 a 450 001 9910458763103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-90178-8 010 $a9786612901782 010 $a0-226-06857-9 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226068572 035 $a(CKB)2670000000060811 035 $a(EBL)616029 035 $a(OCoLC)688242186 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000426795 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11286966 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000426795 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10390544 035 $a(PQKB)10779693 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC616029 035 $a(DE-B1597)523612 035 $a(OCoLC)1027584522 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226068572 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL616029 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10431304 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL290178 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000060811 100 $a20010201d2001 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aReconciling science and religion$b[electronic resource] $ethe debate in early-twentieth-century Britain /$fPeter J. Bowler 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2001 215 $a1 online resource (494 p.) 225 1 $aScience and its conceptual foundations 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-06859-5 311 $a0-226-06858-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $apt. 1. The sciences and religion -- pt. 2. The churches and science -- pt. 3. The wider debate. 330 $aAlthough much has been written about the vigorous debates over science and religion in the Victorian era, little attention has been paid to their continuing importance in early twentieth-century Britain. Reconciling Science and Religion provides a comprehensive survey of the interplay between British science and religion from the late nineteenth century to World War II. Peter J. Bowler argues that unlike the United States, where a strong fundamentalist opposition to evolutionism developed in the 1920's (most famously expressed in the Scopes "monkey trial" of 1925), in Britain there was a concerted effort to reconcile science and religion. Intellectually conservative scientists championed the reconciliation and were supported by liberal theologians in the Free Churches and the Church of England, especially the Anglican "Modernists." Popular writers such as Julian Huxley and George Bernard Shaw sought to create a non-Christian religion similar in some respects to the Modernist position. Younger scientists and secularists-including Rationalists such as H. G. Wells and the Marxists-tended to oppose these efforts, as did conservative Christians, who saw the liberal position as a betrayal of the true spirit of their religion. With the increased social tensions of the 1930's, as the churches moved toward a neo-orthodoxy unfriendly to natural theology and biologists adopted the "Modern Synthesis" of genetics and evolutionary theory, the proposed reconciliation fell apart. Because the tensions between science and religion-and efforts at reconciling the two-are still very much with us today, Bowler's book will be important for everyone interested in these issues. 410 0$aScience and its conceptual foundations. 606 $aReligion and science$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y20th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aReligion and science$xHistory 676 $a215/.0941/09041 700 $aBowler$b Peter J$0709948 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910458763103321 996 $aReconciling science and religion$92036843 997 $aUNINA