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Within Muslim populations, debates about the compatibility between science and religion tend to be framed by the long-standing competition between modernizing reformers, particularly westernizers, and theological conservatives. Much like their liberal Christian counterparts, reformers propose to embrace technical knowledge and reinterpret traditional beliefs undermined by modern science. Conservatives are more open to challenging the content of science, especially when science appears to support materialist views. Islamists promote an alternative, non-western style of modernity, nurturing a more pious professional class that contrasts with westernized elites. By scientific standards, westernizers appear to have the upper hand, especially as conservative apologetics is drawn toward distortions of science such as creationism, or fruitless attempts to Islamize science. But conservatives can also point to some success in defusing tensions between scientific and religious institutions without adopting the full secularization of science seen in post-Christian countries.

Islam --- Sociology of knowledge --- Sociology of religion --- Islam and science. --- Religion and science.

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Philosophy, English -- 19th century --- Religion and science -- Great Britain -- 1800-1859

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Is nature all there is? John Haught examines this question and in doing so addresses a fundamental issue in the dialogue of science with religion. The belief that nature is all there is and that no overall purpose exists in the universe is known broadly as 'naturalism'. Naturalism, in this context, denies the existence of any realities distinct from the natural world and human culture. Since the rise of science in the modern world has had so much influence on naturalism's intellectual acceptance, the author focuses on 'scientific' naturalism and the way in which its defenders are now attempting to put a distance between contemporary thought and humanity's religious traditions. Haught seeks to provide a reasonable, scientifically informed alternative to naturalism. His approach will provide the basis for lively discussion among students, scholars, scientists, theologians and intellectually curious people in general.

Religion and science --- Religion and science. --- Naturalismus ; SWD-ID: 40413652 --- Religion ; SWD-ID: 40493969 --- Wissenschaft ; SWD-ID: 40665628 --- 215 --- Christianity and science --- Geology --- Geology and religion --- Science --- Science and religion --- Religion et science --- Religious aspects --- Christian religion --- Philosophy of nature --- Pure sciences. Natural sciences (general) --- Natural theology. --- Natural religion --- Theology, Natural --- Apologetics --- God --- Religion --- Theology --- Arts and Humanities

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Robin Horton's critical and creative writings on African religious thought have influenced anthropologists, philosophers, and all those interested in the comparative study of religion and thought. This selection of some of his classic papers, with a new introduction and postscript by the author, traces Horton's theoretical ideas over thirty years. In attempting to understand African religious thought, he also tackles broader issues in the history and sociology of thought, such as secularisation and modernisation. Part I is a critical assessment of two established interpretive approaches, the Symbolist and the Theological. Part II proposes an alternative 'Intellectualist' approach that emphasises the structural and processual similarities between religious and scientific thinking. The postscript appraises the Intellectualist approach in the light of theorising about religion and world views.

Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Africa --- Knowledge, Sociology of --- Religion --- Religion and science --- Sociologie de la connaissance --- Religion et sciences --- Knowledge, Sociology of. --- Religion and science. --- #SBIB:39A10 --- #SBIB:39A73 --- #SBIB:1H30 --- 316.7 --- 316.75:001 --- 316:2 --- Christianity and science --- Geology --- Geology and religion --- Science --- Science and religion --- Knowledge, Theory of (Sociology) --- Sociology of knowledge --- Communication --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Public opinion --- Sociology --- Social epistemology --- Antropologie: religie, riten, magie, hekserij --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Filosofie van de mens, wijsgerige antropologie --- Cultuursociologie --(algemeen) --- Wetenschapssociologie --- Godsdienstsociologie --- Religious aspects --- Religion. --- 316:2 Godsdienstsociologie --- 316.75:001 Wetenschapssociologie --- 316.7 Cultuursociologie --(algemeen) --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- Irreligion --- Religions --- Theology

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Scholarship has come to value the uncertainties haunting early modern knowledge cultures; indeed, the awareness of the fragility and plurality of knowledge is now offered as a key element of "Baroque Science". Yet early modern actors never questioned the possibility of certainty itself; including the notion that truth is out there, universal, and therefore situated at one remove from human manipulations. This book addresses the central question of how early modern actors managed not to succumb to postmodern relativism, amidst uncertainties and blatant disagreements about the nature of God, Man, and the Universe. An international and interdisciplinary team of experts in fields ranging from Astronomy to Business Administration to Theology investigate a number of practices that are central to maintaining and functionalizing the notion of absolute truth, the certainty that could be achieved about it, and of the credibility of a wide plethora of actors in differentiating fields of knowledge.

Religion and science --- Christianity and science --- Geology --- Geology and religion --- Science --- Science and religion --- Religious aspects --- Catholic Church --- History --- Doctrines. --- Religion and science. --- Theology, Doctrinal. --- Catholic Church. --- Since 1500. --- Truth --- Christian heresies --- History. --- Christian church history --- anno 1500-1799 --- Theory of knowledge --- Church of Rome --- Roman Catholic Church --- Katholische Kirche --- Katolyt︠s︡ʹka t︠s︡erkva --- Römisch-Katholische Kirche --- Römische Kirche --- Ecclesia Catholica --- Eglise catholique --- Eglise catholique-romaine --- Katolicheskai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ --- Chiesa cattolica --- Iglesia Católica --- Kościół Katolicki --- Katolicki Kościół --- Kościół Rzymskokatolicki --- Nihon Katorikku Kyōkai --- Katholikē Ekklēsia --- Gereja Katolik --- Kenesiyah ha-Ḳatolit --- Kanisa Katoliki --- כנסיה הקתולית --- כנסייה הקתולית --- 가톨릭교 --- 천주교 --- Truth - Religious aspects - Catholic Church. --- Christian heresies - History.