Reconciling science and religion the debate in early-twentieth-century Britain
Although much has been written about the vigorous debates over science and religion in the Victorian era, little attention has been paid to their continuing importance in early twentieth-century Britain. Reconciling Science and Religion provides a comprehensive survey of the interplay between Britis...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press
2001.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Science and its conceptual foundations. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b31260068*spi |
| Sumario: | Although much has been written about the vigorous debates over science and religion in the Victorian era, little attention has been paid to their continuing importance in early twentieth-century Britain. Reconciling Science and Religion provides a comprehensive survey of the interplay between British science and religion from the late nineteenth century to World War II. Peter J. Bowler argues that unlike the United States, where a strong fundamentalist opposition to evolutionism developed in the 1920s (most famously expressed in the Scopes "monkey trial" of 1925), in Britain there was. |
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| Descripción Física: | xiii, 479 p. : il |
| Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliografía: | Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. 429-470) e índice. |
| ISBN: | 9780226068572 |
