ISBN:
978-1-03-207319-4 (hbk)
,
978-1-003-21347-5 (ebk)
,
978-1-03-210061-6 (pbk)
Language:
English
Pages:
ix, 203 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Edition:
First edition
Keywords:
Indien Geschichte, nachkoloniale
;
Wissenschaft
;
Atheismus
;
Religion
;
Religion und Gesellschaft
;
Kaste
;
Religionsethnologie
;
Anthropologie
Abstract:
This book 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 them. 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. (Verlagangaben)
Description / Table of Contents:
List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Science, Rationality, and Scientific Temper in Postcolonial India -- 2 Beyond Disenchantment: Scientists, Laboratories, and Religion -- 3 The Making of Scientist-Believers -- 4 Being Atheistic, Being Scientific: Scientists as Atheists -- 5 Caste, Religion, and the Laboratory Life -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 181-196
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