Religion and Science in America: Struggling for Coherence

James Gilbert has provided fascinating and valuable historical sketches of the interactions of science and religion in American culture in this century, especially those taking place between 1945 and 1962. Yet, taken together, it is unclear what conclusion is to be drawn from these interactions. Amb...

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Main Author: Miller, James B. 1942- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 1998
In: Zygon
Year: 1998, Volume: 33, Issue: 1, Pages: 147-153
Further subjects:B Moody Institute of Science
B American Culture
B Institute on Religion in an Age of Science
B American Scientific Affiliation
B Science and religion
B William Jennings Bryan
B Velikovsky
B military chaplaincy
B Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
B Ralph Wendell Burhoe
B American Association for the Advancement of Science
B Science Fiction
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Summary:James Gilbert has provided fascinating and valuable historical sketches of the interactions of science and religion in American culture in this century, especially those taking place between 1945 and 1962. Yet, taken together, it is unclear what conclusion is to be drawn from these interactions. Ambiguity about the variety of forms of the science-and-religion relationship and about the referent of the termreligion make the task of apprehending a coherent pattern among these sketches very difficult.
ISSN:1467-9744
Contains:Enthalten in: Zygon
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/0591-2385.1331998133