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Sacred Science?

On science and its interrelations with religious worldviews

Editors:

  1. Simen Andersen Øyen

    1. Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities (SVT), University of Bergen, Norway

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  2. Tone Lund-Olsen

    1. Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities (SVT), University of Bergen, Norway

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  3. Nora Sørensen Vaage

    1. Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities (SVT), University of Bergen, Norway

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  • This book is part of the 25th anniversary celebrations of The Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities (SVT)
  • Aims to offer topics of interest to most researchers with a connection to the research profile of the SVT
  • Also intended to reach a broader readership, outside of academia

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-15
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  2. Scientific worldviews, religious minds

    • Simen Andersen Øyen, Nora Sørensen Vaage, Tone Lund-Olsen
    Pages 17-24

  3. Science and religion?

    • Gunnar Skirbekk
    Pages 25-40

  4. What is epistocracy?

    • Cathrine Holst
    Pages 41-54

  5. Doubt has been eliminated

    • Roger Strand
    Pages 55-64

  8. Science without God

    • Ragnar Fjelland
    Pages 87-100

  9. Science and religion, natural and unnatural

    • Barbara Herrnstein Smith
    Pages 101-110

  10. Immortality

    • Kjetil Rommetveit
    Pages 111-126

  12. Current commentary: The arc of civil liberation36

    • Jeffrey C. Alexander
    Pages 141-148

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 149-150
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About this book

Science and religion are often viewed as dichotomies. But although our contemporary society is often perceived as a rationalization process, we still need broad, metaphysical beliefs outside of what can be proven empirically. Rituals and symbols remain at the core of modern life. Do our concepts of science and religion require revitalization? Can science itself be considered a religion, a belief, or an ideology? Science's authority and prestige allows for little in the way of alternate approaches not founded in empirical science. It is not unusual to believe that technology and science will solve the world's fundamental problems. Has truth been colonized by science? Have scientific disciplines become so specialized and "operationally closed" that they have constructed barriers to other disciplines as well as the general public? The writers of this book set out to investigate whether the symbols of academia may in some cases take on a quality of sacrality, whether the rule of experts can be said to have the character of a "priesthood of knowledge", whether religion has a place in scientific contexts, and a selection of other questions concerning science and its relations to religious belief.
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities (SVT), University of Bergen, Norway

    Simen Andersen Øyen, Tone Lund-Olsen, Nora Sørensen Vaage

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Sacred Science?

  • Book Subtitle: On science and its interrelations with religious worldviews

  • Editors: Simen Andersen Øyen, Tone Lund-Olsen, Nora Sørensen Vaage

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.3920/978-90-8686-752-3

  • Publisher: Wageningen Academic Publishers Wageningen

  • eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Wageningen Academic Publishers 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-90-8686-752-3Published: 19 May 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Topics: Life Sciences, general

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