Critical Approaches to Science and Religion

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Critical Approaches to Science and Religion is a marvelous advance of interdisciplinary scholarship that charts foundational themes for interpreting the cultural dimensions of science and religion. The authors elucidate epistemological tensions and methodological resonances to inform future scholarship. This is essential reading for scholars across multiple disciplines. -- Sylvester A. Johnson, coeditor of <i>Religion and US Empire: Critical New Histories</i> I will return repeatedly to this volume to think with these diverse authors. Their disciplinary languages are not mine although they attentively converse with my discipline of Critical Indigenous Studies, among others. I am eager for vital conversations that I and others will have with these ideas that feed my radical hope for the implosion of the white and settler supremacist worldview. In order to live better with one another in this world, we need this conversation. -- Kim TallBear, author of <i>Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science</i> With its inclusion of vital perspectives from critical race theory, feminist and queer theory, and postcolonial and Indigenous studies, this volume transforms the conversation about religion and science by making issues of difference central to these discussions. These essays are invaluable. -- Randall Styers, author of <i>Making Magic: Religion, Magic, and Science in the Modern World</i> A joyful intellectual exercise. I highly recommend this book. You likely won't agree with all of it-perhaps even none of it. But you will nevertheless be changed by the experience of reading it. * Reviews in Science, Religion, and Theology * Highly recommended for advanced classes on critical methods in religious studies and the history of science. This collection furthers scholarship on the co-construction of religion and science as categories of the Enlightenment; categories entangled in globalization. * Reading Religion * The full book, prompting questions of the purpose of academic scholarship and answering them by encouraging a novel turn in the ?eld, will be an excellent addition to graduate reading lists. * Isis *