Science and Religion in Western Literature

Auteur

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

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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.

Contenu

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 apek

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