Some New World
Myths of Supernatural Belief in a Secular Age
(Sprache: Englisch)
"What was believable in one era is no longer acceptable in another. What one culture finds utterly incredible elsewhere becomes an article of faith. This disjuncture forms the basis of Peter Harrison's masterful, expansive intervention in intellectual...
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"What was believable in one era is no longer acceptable in another. What one culture finds utterly incredible elsewhere becomes an article of faith. This disjuncture forms the basis of Peter Harrison's masterful, expansive intervention in intellectual history, as he challenges misconceptions about modernity in relation to supernaturalism and belief"--
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Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Hume's dilemma; 2. Languages of belief; 3. Inventing epistemology; 4. The age of evidences; 5. The birth of the supernatural; 6. The shape of history; 7. What the Greeks saw; Bibliography; Index.
Autoren-Porträt von Peter Harrison
Peter Harrison is a former Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion in the University of Oxford, and Emeritus Professor of the History of Science at the University of Queensland, where he was also an Australian Laureate fellow and Founding Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH). His many celebrated books include 'Religion' and the Religions in the English Enlightenment (Cambridge University Press, 1990), The Fall of Man and the Foundations of Science (Cambridge University Press, 2007), The Cambridge Companion to Science and Religion (Cambridge University Press, 2010), The Territories of Science and Religion (University of Chicago Press, 2015), and - co-edited with John Milbank - After Science and Religion (Cambridge University Press, 2022). In 2019, he delivered in the University Church of St Mary the Virgin the prestigious University of Oxford Bampton Lectures, which constitute the basis of the present work.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Peter Harrison
- 2024, XIII, 467 Seiten, Maße: 15,6 x 23,1 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Cambridge University Pr.
- ISBN-10: 1009477226
- ISBN-13: 9781009477222
- Erscheinungsdatum: 18.04.2024
Sprache:
Englisch
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