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Public understanding of the relationship between science and religion is dominated by US and UK perspectives and research that has been carried out in Western Protestant Anglophone contexts. This has enabled a culturally specific narrative of conflict to dominate public discussions of evolution, science and religion, obscuring the varied cultural contexts and complexities within which engagement with science takes place and the growing influence of nonreligious identities and diverse forms of spirituality.
Representing one of the most wide-ranging and original contributions to the emerging body of research on the relationship between religion, non-religion and science in society, this innovative and timely collection revisits, challenges and rethinks longstanding assumptions by decentring positions and perspectives that have until recently dominated discussions of science and belief. Drawing on almost a decade of multi-disciplinary research, International Perspectives on Science, Culture, and Belief: From Complexity to Globality brings together incisive global perspectives exploring the social and cultural drivers of the relationships between evolutionary science and belief. Highlighting the natures and varieties of the interrelation between science and belief globally, this volume addresses the relationships between science, culture, and belief from multiple disciplines, methodologies and geographical contexts including South Asia, Latin America, Africa and Australia as well as Europe and North America.
This work has particular relevance in the increasingly polarised post-pandemic world, shining a light for the first time on the multi-faceted interplay between social identities and cultural narratives in debates that are often about far more than the science.
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Contents
1. Introduction PART ONE: CONTEXT 2. Contending with Complexity: The Challenges of Global Histories of Evolution and Religion 3. Contending with Empire: Colonial Intersections in the Historiography of Science and Religion PART TWO: COUNTRY CASE STUDIES 4. Argentina: A Narrative of Conflict Confined to Niches 5. Australia: Religion-Science Views in Australia's Creationist Heartland 6. Conflict on the Margins of a Secular Public: Science and Religion in Germany 7. When Evolution is not a Problem: Exploring Religion and Science Debates in Contemporary Spain 8. Sri Lanka: Science, Religion and Evolution in a Context of Religious Pluralism 9. The Cultural Life of the Science/Religion Conflict Thesis after 'New Atheism': The Case of the United Kingdom 10. Science and Religion in Middle America: Agreement and Diversity PART THREE: CROSS-CULTURAL ANALYSIS 11. Where the Conflict Really Lies: Quantitatively Locating Evolution Conflicts Internationally 12. Comparability vs. Relevance: Exploring Perceptions of Science and Religion Across Countries from a Psychological Perspective PART FOUR: NEW HORIZONS IN THE STUDY OF SCIENCE, CULTURE AND BELIEF 13. Culture, Politics and the Economy as Mediators of the Science and Religion Relationship in Africa 14. Sciencey-Spirituality, Neoliberalism and Eco-Anxiety in Australia
