Redeeming culture [electronic resource] : American religion in an age of science / James Gilbert.
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TextLanguage: English Publication details: Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, c1997.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 407 p.) : illISBN: - 0226293238 (electronic bk.)
- 9780226293233 (electronic bk.)
- Religion and science -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Religion and culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- SCIENCE -- Philosophy & Social Aspects
- Electronic books
- United States -- Religion -- 20th century
- United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
- კულტურის სოციალური ასპექტები რელიგია და მეცნიერება რელიგია და კულტურა
- 306.4/5/09730904 21
- BL245 .G55 1997eb
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-390) and index.
The promise of Genesis. -- William Jennings Bryan, scientist. -- The republic of science. -- A world without John Dewey. -- "A magnificent laboratory, a magnificent control room". -- Churching american soldiers. -- Rendezvous at Rancho La Brea. -- Two men of science. -- "Almost a message from God himself". -- Transgressing the heavens. -- The religious possibilities of social scieince. -- The religion of science. -- Space gothic in Seattle.
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 understandi.
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