Science and Religion in Western Literature

Critical and Theological Studies
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-10164-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 188 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 295 g

Reihe: Routledge Science and Religion Series

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, poets and dramatists, casting new light upon those ideas and suggesting constructive ways in which science and religion may interact. The contributors cover a rich variety of authors, including Mary Shelley, Aldous Huxley, R. S. Thomas, Philip Pullman and Margaret Atwood. Together they form a fascinating set of reflections on some of the significant issues encountered within the discourse of science and religion, indicating ways in which the insights of creative artists can make a valuable and important contribution to that discourse.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fuller, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 Capek

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

Afterword

Christopher Southgate

Über Autor(innen)

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