Description
Critical Approaches to Science and Religion offers a new direction for scholarship on science and religion that examines social, political, and ecological concerns long part of the field but never properly centered. The works that make up this volume are not preoccupied with traditional philosophical or theological issues. Instead, the book draws on three vital schools of thought: critical race theory, feminist and queer theory, and postcolonial theory. Featuring a diverse array of contributors, it develops critical perspectives by examining how histories of empire, slavery, colonialism, and patriarchy have shaped the many relationships between science and religion in the modern era. In so doing, this book lays the groundwork for scholars interested in speaking directly to matters such as climate change, structural racism, immigration, health care, reproductive justice, and sexual identity.
About the Author
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.
Reviews
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 Religion and US Empire: Critical New Histories
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 Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science
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 Making Magic: Religion, Magic, and Science in the Modern World
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 *
Book Information
ISBN 9780231206570
Author Myrna Perez Sheldon
Format Paperback
Page Count 416
Imprint Columbia University Press
Publisher Columbia University Press
About the Author
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.
Reviews
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 Religion and US Empire: Critical New Histories
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 Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science
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 Making Magic: Religion, Magic, and Science in the Modern World
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 *
Book Information
ISBN 9780231206570
Author Myrna Perez Sheldon
Format Paperback
Page Count 416
Imprint Columbia University Press
Publisher Columbia University Press
