Territories of Science and Religion Harrison Peter
Territories of Science and Religion Harrison Peter The conflict between science and religion seems indelible, even eternal. Actually, that's not the case, says Peter Harrison: our very concepts of…
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Territories of Science and Religion Harrison Peter
The conflict between science and religion seems indelible, even eternal. Actually, that's not the case, says Peter Harrison: our very concepts of science and religion are relatively recent, emerging only in the past three hundred years, and it is those very categories, rather than their underlying concepts, that constrain our understanding of how the formal study of nature relates to the religious life.In The Territories of Science and Religion, Harrison dismantles what we think we know about the two categories, then puts it all back together again in a provocative, productive new way. Surely two such divergent views of the universe have always been in fierce opposition?
By tracing the history of these concepts for the first time in parallel, he illuminates alternative boundaries and little-known relations between them-thereby making it possible for us to learn from their
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