Quakers, Jews, and Science

Religious Responses to Modernity and the Sciences in Britain, 1650-1900
Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-0-19-927668-4
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 432 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 763 g

How do science and religion interact? This study examines the ways in which two minorities in Britain - the Quaker and Anglo-Jewish communities - engaged with science. Drawing on a wealth of documentary material, much of which has not been analysed by previous historians, Geoffrey Cantor charts the participation of Quakers and Jews in many different aspects of science: scientific research, science education, science-related careers, and scientific institutions. The responses of both communities to the challenge of modernity posed by innovative scientific theories, such as the Newtonian worldview and Darwin's theory of evolution, are of central interest.

Zielgruppe

Theologians, especially those with interests in Quakerism, Judaism, religion in early modern and 19th-century Britain, historians of the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, and of science and religion, scholars and students of Quakerism and Judaism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cantor, Geoffrey

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein Geschichte der Physik
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Andere und Moderne Christliche Glaubensgemeinschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Introduction: Science in `Dissenting' Religious Communities

- 2: Two Communities

- 3: Education and Careers

- 4: Scientific Institutions

- 5: Trajectories in Science

- 6: Quaker Attitudes and Practices

- 7: Quaker Responses to Evolution

- 8: Jewish Attitudes and Practices

- 9: Jewish Responses to Evolution

- 10: Historical Comparisons and Historiographical Reflections

Über Autor(innen)

Geoffrey Cantor is Professor of the History of Science, University of Leeds.