Geoffrey Cantor

Quakers, Jews, and Science

Religious Responses to Modernity and the Sciences in Britain, 1650-1900

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Produktbeschreibung

How do science and religion interact? Geoffrey Cantor examines the ways in which the Quaker and Anglo-Jewish communities engaged with the sciences in early modern and 19th-century Britain. Of central interest are the responses of both communities to the challenge of modernity posed by Victorian science and especially by Darwin's controversial theory of evolution.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. November 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 780g
• ISBN-13: 9780199276684
• ISBN-10: 0199276684
• Artikelnr.: 21667770

Autorenporträt

Geoffrey Cantor is Professor of the History of Science, University of Leeds.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction: Science in `Dissenting' Religious Communities
2: Two Communities
3: Education and Careers
4: Scientific Institutions
5: Trajectories in Science
6: Quaker Attitudes and Practices
7: Quaker Responses to Evolution
8: Jewish Attitudes and Practices
9: Jewish Responses to Evolution
10: Historical Comparisons and Historiographical Reflections