Science, Religion, and Secularity

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The View from Relations

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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This volume provides a fresh perspective on the conflict-ridden relationship between science and religion by exploring how the concept of secularity can help us rethink how these domains relate to each other.Increasing antagonism towards science and scientists in the twenty-first century is often explained simplistically by pointing to the rise of religiously-underpinned right-wing movements – a narrative that reinforces the idea of an age-old and inevitable clash between science and religion. This book shows that engaging the concept of secularity, which has been understudied in this context, in scholarship on science and religion helps take the scholarly debate into productive new directions.Focusing on contemporary issues in the study of science and religion, including UFOs, cognitive science, decolonization, the Covid-19 pandemic and religious nationalism, the contributions in this volume consider how people support, reject and grapple with common secularist ideas. They argue that the conditions of secularity both produce and are produced through relationships – those between humans as well as those that humans have with animals, matter and the divine. Moving beyond the individualism that is typically privileged in the West, this relational perspective assumes that the web of secularity, religion and science is open to constant negotiation and transformation: people and knowledge keep changing in relation to the world.In foregrounding relationships and their capacity for change, this volume raises important questions about the political dimension of research on science, religion and secularity. At a time of science denial and ecological crisis, it invites us to think about how humans can live with each other – and with non-humans – in better and less destructive ways.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-05-14
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieReligion and Science as a Critical Discourse
Antal sidor256
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9798216383758

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Notes on ContributorsIntroduction, Ashley Lebner (Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada) and Yunus Dogan Telliel (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA)Part I: In Times of Transition: Interrogating Secularism, Questioning the Individual1. The Monstrous Mixture of Things: On Science as Religion, with Continual Reference to Einstein, Mary-Jane Rubenstein (Wesleyan University, USA)2. Faith in Science, Stephan Palmié (University of Chicago, USA)3. De-Extinction: A Modern Curio, Lisa H. Sideris (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)4. Sickularism: An Alternate Story of Man in the Age of the Virus with a Crown, J. Brent Crosson (University of Texas at Austin, USA)5. Relations of the Secular and Otherwise, John Lardas Modern (Franklin and Marshall College, USA)6. Secularity, Synchronicity, and Uncanny Science, Hussein Agrama (University of Chicago, USA)Part II: Secularist Post/Colonizations and What Comes Next7. Relating to Rocks: The Geological Secular, Comparative Religion, and Charles Lyell's Visits to Niagara Falls, Pamela E. Klassen (University of Toronto, Canada)8. Exposure and Devotion in Mexico City, Elizabeth F.S. Roberts (University of Michigan, USA)9. Performance and the Synaesthetic Field: Non-secular Thoughts on Senses and Absences in the Afterlife, Abou Farman (The New School for Social Research, USA)10. Specters of the Sacred: Cultivating a Counter-colonial Imagination, Banu Subramaniam (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)11. Strategic Anti-essentialism and Science as Other than Itself, Jacob Copeman (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain) and John Hagström (University of Edinburgh, UK)12. The Wonders of Materialism: Relationality and the Question of the More-than-human in Religious Naturalism, Carol Wayne White (Bucknell University, USA)Coda13. Interview with Talal Asad (CUNY Graduate Center, USA)Index