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Publication date
  
1991

Dewey Decimal
  
291.1/75 20

Originally published
  
1991

OCLC
  
22451451

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ISBN
  
0-521-28374-4

LC Class
  
BL245 .B77 1991

Author
  
John Hedley Brooke

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Publisher
  
Cambridge University Press

Religion books
  
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Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives is a book on the relationship between religion and science by John Hedley Brooke.

Contents

The book identifies three traditional views of the relationship between science and religion found in historical analyses: conflict, complementarity, and commonality. The book portrays all three as oversimplifications. It offers up the alternative notion of complexity, which bases the relationship between science and religion on changing circumstances where it is defined upon each particular historical situation and the actual beliefs and ideas of the scientific and religious figures involved.

Reception

American Historical Review states that the book's bibliographic essay "identifies and … incorporates the results of virtually every significant and relevant article published in the past fifty years."

List of reviews

  • Cantor, Geoffrey (1992). "Science and Religion (Book Reviews)". TLS (Times Literary Supplement) (4639): 27. 
  • Howell, Kenneth J. (December 1994). "Book Review: Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives. John Hedley Brooke, George Basalla". The Journal of Modern History. 66 (4): 779–782. doi:10.1086/244944. 
  • Olson, Richard; Brooke, John Hedley (February 1994). "Reviews of Books: Science and Religion Some Historical Perspectives". American Historical Review. American Historical Association. 99 (1): 191–192. doi:10.2307/2166181. 
  • Pallin, David A. (1992). "Reviews: Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives". The Journal of Theological Studies. 43 (2): 797–800. doi:10.1093/jts/43.2.797. 
  • Tollefson, R.J. (1992). "Science and Religion (Book Reviews)". Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. 29 (8): 1244–1245. 

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