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Publication date 1991 Dewey Decimal 291.1/75 20 Originally published 1991 OCLC 22451451 | 3.6/5 ISBN 0-521-28374-4 LC Class BL245 .B77 1991 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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."