Redeeming Culture : American Religion in an Age of Science.

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Author / Creator:	Gilbert, James.
Imprint:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1997.
Description:	1 online resource (420 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Religion and science -- United States -- History -- 20th century. Religion and culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century. Intellectual life. Religion. Religion and culture. Religion and science. United States -- Religion -- 20th century. United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. United States. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11347259

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ISBN:	9780226293233 0226293238 128143048X 9781281430489
Notes:	Print version record.
Summary:	In this intriguing history, James Gilbert examines the confrontation between modern science and religion as these disparate, sometimes hostile modes of thought clashed in the arena of American culture. Beginning in 1925 with the infamous Scopes trial, Gilbert traces nearly forty years of competing attitudes toward science and religion. "Anyone seriously interested in the history of current controversies involving religion and science will find Gilbert's book invaluable."Peter J. Causton, Boston Book Review. "Redeeming Culture provides some fascinating background for understandi.
Other form:	9780226293219

Table of Contents:

Redeeming Culture; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 The Promise of Genesis; 2 William Jennings Bryan, Scientist; 3 The Republic of Science; 4 A World without John Dewey; 5 "A Magnificent Laboratory, a Magnificent Control Room"; 6 Churching American Soldiers; 7 Rendezvous at Rancho La Brea; 8 Two Men of Science; 9 "Almost a Message from God Himself"; 10 Transgressing the Heavens; 11 The Religious Possibilities of Social Science; 12 The Religion of Science; 13 Space Gothic in Seattle; 14 Conclusion; Notes; Index.

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