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Redeeming culture : American religion in an age of science / James Gilbert.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, �1997.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 407 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0226293238
  • 9780226293233
  • 9780226293202
  • 0226293203
  • 9780226293219
  • 0226293211
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Redeeming culture.DDC classification:
  • 306.4/5/09730904 21
LOC classification:
  • BL245 .G55 1997eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 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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