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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1. Verfasser: Bowler, Peter J.
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2001.
Schriftenreihe:Science and its conceptual foundations.
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Zusammenfassung: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
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xiii, 479 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 429-470) and index.
ISBN:9780226068572
0226068579
1282901788
9781282901780
9786612901782
6612901780

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