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Magisteria: the Entangled Histories Of Science & Religion
[Hardback - 2023]
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Category: Science
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Additional Category: General History - General Religion
Publisher: Oneworld Uk | ISBN: 9780861544615 | Pages: 480
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Most things you know about science and religion are myths or half-truths that grew up in the last years of the nineteenth century and remain widespread today.



The true history of science and religion is a human one. It s about the role of religion in inspiring, and strangling, science before the scientific revolution. It s about the sincere but eccentric faith and the quiet, creeping doubts of the most brilliant scientists in history - Galileo, Newton, Faraday, Darwin, Maxwell, Einstein. Above all it s about the question of what it means to be human and who gets to say - a question that is more urgent in the twenty-first century than ever before.



From eighth-century Baghdad to the frontiers of AI today, via medieval Europe, nineteenth-century India and Soviet Russia, Magisteria sheds new light on this complex historical landscape. Rejecting the thesis that science and religion are inevitably at war, Nicholas Spencer illuminates a compelling and troubled relationship that has definitively shaped human history.

Nicholas Spencer is Senior Fellow at Theos, a Fellow of International Society for Science and Religion and a Visiting Research Fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is the author of a number of books including Darwin and God, The Evolution of the West and Atheists. He has presented a BBC Radio 4 series on The Secret History of Science and Religion, and has written for the Guardian, Telegraph, Independent, New Statesman, Prospect and more.

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