Jesuits and the Book of Nature

Science and Education in Modern Portugal

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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Jesuits and the Book of Nature: Science and Education in Modern Portugal offers an account of the Jesuits’ contributions to science and education after the restoration of the Society of Jesus in Portugal in 1858. As well as promoting an education grounded on an “alliance between religion and science,” the Portuguese Jesuits founded a scientific journal that played a significant role in the consolidation of taxonomy, plant breeding, biochemistry, and molecular genetics. In this book, Francisco Malta Romeiras argues that the priority the Jesuits placed on the teaching and practice of science was not only a way of continuing a centennial tradition but should also be seen as response to the adverse anticlerical milieu in which the restoration of the Society of Jesus took place.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2019-09-19
Mått155 x 235 x 23 mm
Vikt612 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieJesuit Studies
Antal sidor282
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004382350

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AcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsList of Figures and TablesIntroduction1 Jesuit Science and Education: A Brief History2 The Pombaline Expulsion and the Building of Anti-Jesuitism3 Carlos Rademaker and the Restoration of the Society of Jesus in Portugal4 For the Greater Credibility: Science and Education in Modern Portugal5 The Republican Exile and the Confiscation of the Natural History Collections6 The Journal Brotéria, the Book of Nature, and the Greater Glory of God7 The Journal Brotéria: Vulgarização científica and the Popularization of Science, Technology, and Medicine8 Taxonomy, Cytogenetics, and Plant Breeding in the Early Years of Estado Novo9 New Lenses to Read the Book of Nature: Biochemistry, Molecular Genetics, and BioethicsConclusionAppendixBibliographyIndex

"Francisco Malta Romeiras offers a worthy contribution to the vast and still growing body of scholarship on Jesuit science from a rather original standpoint: modern Portugal [...] The book is a very informative, if rather descriptive, contribution to the history of Catholic science in thenineteenth and twentieth centuries [...] Jesuits and the Book of Nature thus offers an engaging collective portrait of four generations of men of science and faith, shedding light on a myriad of better- and lesser-known figures and facts and bringing them to the attention of a wide international scholarly audience; it is certainly a very welcome contribution to a thriving field of investigation."Maria Pia Donato, CNRS Paris, in Isis, 112.2 (2021)(full review: https://doi.org/10.1086/714670)