The Territories of Science and Religion

by Peter Harrison

Book Overview

The conflict between science and religion seems indelible, even eternal. Surely two such divergent views of the universe have always been in fierce opposition? Actually, that's not the case, says Peter Harrison: our very concepts of science and religion are relatively recent, emerging only in the past three hundred years, and it is those very categories, rather than their underlying concepts, that constrain our understanding of how the formal study...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022618448X
• ISBN13: 9780226184487
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.8" x 9.1"