Redeeming Culture: American Religion in an Age of Science

Gilbert, James:

ISBN 10: 0226293211 / ISBN 13: 9780226293219

Editore: UNIV OF CHICAGO PR 01.11.1998., 1998

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• Titolo: Redeeming Culture: American Religion in an Age of Science
• Editore: UNIV OF CHICAGO PR 01.11.1998.
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0226293211
• ISBN 13: 9780226293219
• Rilegatura: Softcover
• Edizione: Auflage: Revised.
• Condizione: Befriedigend
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In this intriguing history, James Gilbert examines the confrontation between modern science and religion as these disparate, sometimes hostile modes of thought clashed in the arena of American culture. Beginning in 1925 with the infamous Scopes trial, Gilbert traces nearly forty years of competing attitudes toward science and religion.

"Anyone seriously interested in the history of current controversies involving religion and science will find Gilbert's book invaluable."--Peter J. Causton, Boston Book Review

"Redeeming Culture provides some fascinating background for understanding the interactions of science and religion in the United States. . . . Intriguing pictures of some of the highlights in this cultural exchange."--George Marsden, Nature

"A solid and entertaining account of the obstacles to mutual understanding that science and religion are now warily overcoming."--Catholic News Service

"[An] always fascinating look at the conversation between religion and science in America."--Publishers Weekly

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James Gilbert examines the confrontation between science and religion in the 20th century, as these disparate, sometimes hostile modes of thought clashed within the arena of American culture. Beginning in 1925 with the Scopes trial, Gilbert traces nearly 40 years of conflicting American attitudes toward science and religion. From Harvard intellectuals to Hollywood, from UFOs to the USAF, from sci-fi thrillers to the nightly news - American culture became a proving ground where the boundaries between science and religion were polemicized, propagandized, and contested. Gilbert argues that Catholics, Jews and Protestants alike were able to use the language of democracy and egalitarianism to check the growing authority of science. They did this by appealing to American tolerance of contending views and by presenting a populist counter-weight to what they portrayed as elitest claims to specialized knowledge. Eventually, asserts Gilbert, a kind of cultural paradox emerged in which two intrinsically dissimilar and mutually exclusive systems of explanation were accepted, respected and even encouraged.