Science and religion in India beyond disenchantment
Introduction -- Science, rationality, and scientific temper in postcolonial India -- Beyond disenchantment : scientists, laboratories, and religion -- The making of scientist-believers -- Being atheistic, being scientific : scientists as atheists -- Caste, religion, and the laboratory life -- Conclu...
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London ; New York
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
2022
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| Schriftenreihe: | Routledge science and religion series
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Introduction -- Science, rationality, and scientific temper in postcolonial India -- Beyond disenchantment : scientists, laboratories, and religion -- The making of scientist-believers -- Being atheistic, being scientific : scientists as atheists -- Caste, religion, and the laboratory life -- Conclusion "Provides an in-depth ethnographic study of science and religion in the context of South Asia, giving voice to Indian scientists and shedding valuable light on their engagement with religion. Drawing on biographical, autobiographical, historical and ethnographic material, the volume focuses on scientists' religious life and practices, and the variety of ways in which they express it. Renny Thomas challenges the idea that science and religion in India are naturally connected and argues that the discussion has to go beyond binary models of conflict and complementarity. By complicating the understanding of science and religion in India, the book engages with new ways of looking at these categories"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | ix, 203 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9781032073194 978-1-03-207319-4 9781032100616 978-1-03-210061-6 |