Critical Approaches to Science and Religion
1st Edition
Published on 15. March 2023
416 pages
978-0-231-55654-5 (ISBN)
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This book offers a new direction for scholarship on science and religion that centers social, political, and ecological concerns. Featuring a diverse array of contributors, it draws on three vital schools of thought: critical race theory, feminist and queer theory, and postcolonial theory.
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Persons
Myrna Perez Sheldon is associate professor of gender and American religion, jointly appointed in the Department of Classics and Religious Studies and the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, at Ohio University.
Ahmed Ragab is an associate professor in the Department of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Terence Keel is an associate professor with a joint appointment in the Department of African American Studies and the Institute for Society and Genetics at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Ahmed Ragab is an associate professor in the Department of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Terence Keel is an associate professor with a joint appointment in the Department of African American Studies and the Institute for Society and Genetics at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction, by Myrna Perez Sheldon, Terence Keel, and Ahmed Ragab
Part I. Values
Introduction, by Terence Keel, Ahmed Ragab, and Myrna Perez Sheldon
1. Scripture of False Smiles: Scholarship and Lying with Erving Goffman, by Kathryn Lofton
2. Nihilism, Race, and the Critical Study of Science and Religion, by Terence Keel
3. A Feminist Theology of Abortion, by Myrna Perez Sheldon
4. Can Originalism Save Bioethics?, by Osagie K. Obasogie
Part II. Boundaries
Introduction, by Myrna Perez Sheldon, Terence Keel, and Ahmed Ragab
5. Spiriting the Johnstons: Producing Science and Religion Under Settler Colonial Rule, by Tisa Wenger
6. Dark Gods in the Age of Light: The Lightbulb, the Japanese Deification of Thomas Edison, and the Entangled Constructions of Religion and Science, by Jason Ananda Josephson Storm
7. Questioning the Sacred Cow: Science, Religion, and Race in the United States and India, by Cassie Adcock
8. "And God Knows Best": Knowledge, Expertise, and Trust in the Postcolonial Web-Sphere, by Ahmed Ragab
Part III. Narratives
Introduction, by Ahmed Ragab, Terence Keel, and Myrna Perez Sheldon
9. Secular Grace in the Age of Environmentalism, by Erika Lorraine Milam
10. Performing Polygenism: Science, Religion, and Race in the Enlightenment, by Suman Seth
11. Out of Africa: Where Faith, Race, and Science Collide, by Joseph Graves Jr.
Part IV. Coherence
Introduction, by Ahmed Ragab, Terence Keel, and Myrna Perez Sheldon
12. Kanaka Maoli Voyaging Technology and Geography Beyond Colonial Difference, by Eli Nelson
13. Speculation Is Not a Metaphor: More than Varieties of Cryobiological Experience, by Joanna Radin
14. Maroon Science: Knowledge, Secrecy, and Crime in Jamaica, by Katharine Gerbner
15. Obeah Simplified? Scientism, Magic, and the Problem of Universals, by J. Brent Crosson
Conclusion, by Myrna Perez Sheldon, Terence Keel, and Ahmed Ragab
List of Contributors
Index
Introduction, by Myrna Perez Sheldon, Terence Keel, and Ahmed Ragab
Part I. Values
Introduction, by Terence Keel, Ahmed Ragab, and Myrna Perez Sheldon
1. Scripture of False Smiles: Scholarship and Lying with Erving Goffman, by Kathryn Lofton
2. Nihilism, Race, and the Critical Study of Science and Religion, by Terence Keel
3. A Feminist Theology of Abortion, by Myrna Perez Sheldon
4. Can Originalism Save Bioethics?, by Osagie K. Obasogie
Part II. Boundaries
Introduction, by Myrna Perez Sheldon, Terence Keel, and Ahmed Ragab
5. Spiriting the Johnstons: Producing Science and Religion Under Settler Colonial Rule, by Tisa Wenger
6. Dark Gods in the Age of Light: The Lightbulb, the Japanese Deification of Thomas Edison, and the Entangled Constructions of Religion and Science, by Jason Ananda Josephson Storm
7. Questioning the Sacred Cow: Science, Religion, and Race in the United States and India, by Cassie Adcock
8. "And God Knows Best": Knowledge, Expertise, and Trust in the Postcolonial Web-Sphere, by Ahmed Ragab
Part III. Narratives
Introduction, by Ahmed Ragab, Terence Keel, and Myrna Perez Sheldon
9. Secular Grace in the Age of Environmentalism, by Erika Lorraine Milam
10. Performing Polygenism: Science, Religion, and Race in the Enlightenment, by Suman Seth
11. Out of Africa: Where Faith, Race, and Science Collide, by Joseph Graves Jr.
Part IV. Coherence
Introduction, by Ahmed Ragab, Terence Keel, and Myrna Perez Sheldon
12. Kanaka Maoli Voyaging Technology and Geography Beyond Colonial Difference, by Eli Nelson
13. Speculation Is Not a Metaphor: More than Varieties of Cryobiological Experience, by Joanna Radin
14. Maroon Science: Knowledge, Secrecy, and Crime in Jamaica, by Katharine Gerbner
15. Obeah Simplified? Scientism, Magic, and the Problem of Universals, by J. Brent Crosson
Conclusion, by Myrna Perez Sheldon, Terence Keel, and Ahmed Ragab
List of Contributors
Index
