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Science and Religion in Western Literature: Critical and Theological Studies book cover

1st Edition

Science and Religion in Western Literature Critical and Theological Studies

Edited By Michael Fuller Copyright 2023
188 Pages
by Routledge

188 Pages
by Routledge

188 Pages
by Routledge
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This book explores ways in which Western literature has engaged with themes found within the field of science and religion, both historically and in the present day. It focuses on works of the imagination as important locations at which human arguments, hopes and fears may be played out. The chapters examine a variety of instances where scientific and religious ideas are engaged by novelists,... Read more

Introduction

Michael Fuller

1 Science and Religion Themes in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust: Sin and Evolution, Panpsychism, and the Dangers of ‘Single Vision’

Victoria Lorrimar

2 Weird Tales: The Shifting Role of Science and Religion in Literature’s Search for Truth

Alison Jack

3 ‘Heretical … dangerous and potentially subversive’: The problem of Science and Religion in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World

Mark Harris

4 Radical Plurality: Science and Religion in the writings of Karel Čapek

Michael Fuller

5 The Spirit of Nature in Natural Philosophy and Literature from the Cambridge Platonists to Coleridge

Alison Milbank

6 The wound of knowledge: R. S. Thomas’ cruciform poetics of science and religion

Wilson C. K. Poon

7 Cosmic Consciousness: Henry James, William James, and the Society for Psychical Research

Mark Eaton

8 Marie Corelli’s Electric Creed: Science, Religion and Popular Fiction at the end of the Nineteenth Century

David Jasper

9 Left Behind? Religion as a Vestige in ‘The Rapture of the Nerds’ and Other AI Singularity Literature

Beth Singler

10 Can Religion Save the Planet? Looking for Hope within the Eco-Religions of Climate Fiction

Jaime Wright

11 Afterword

Christopher Southgate

Biography

Michael Fuller is a Lecturer in Science and Religion at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

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