Historically speaking, theology can be said to operate "materiaphobically." Protestant Christianity in particular has bestowed upon theology a privilege of the soul over the body and belief over practice, in line with the distinction between a disembodied God and the inanimate world "He" created. Like all other human, social, and natural sciences, religious studies imported the...(展开全部)

In this timely work, Russell, philosopher, agnostic, mathematician, and renowned peace advocate, offers a brief yet insightful study of the conflicts between science and traditional religion during the last four centuries. Examining accounts in which scientific advances clashed with Christian doctrine or biblical interpretations of the day, from Galileo and the Copernican Revol...(展开全部)

Bringing together authors from two intellectual traditions that have, so far, generally developed independently of one another – critical theory and new materialism – this book addresses the fundamental differences and potential connections that exist between these two schools of thought. With a focus on some of the most pressing questions of contemporary philosophy and social ...(展开全部)

Bringing together authors from two intellectual traditions that have, so far, generally developed independently of one another – critical theory and new materialism – this book addresses the fundamental differences and potential connections that exist between these two schools of thought. With a focus on some of the most pressing questions of contemporary philosophy and social ...(展开全部)

The historical relationship between science and capitalism has long stood as a central question in science studies, at least since its foundations in the 1930s. Taking inspiration from the recent surge of scholarly interest in the “history of capitalism,” as well as from renewed attention to political economy by historians of science and technology, this Osiris volume revisits ...(展开全部)

New Materialisms rethinks the relevance of materialist philosophy in the midst of a world shaped by forces such as digital and biotechnologies, global warming, global capital, and population flows. Moving away from modes of inquiry that have prioritized the study of consciousness and subjectivity over matter, the essays in this collection show that any account of experience, ag...(展开全部)

New Materialisms rethinks the relevance of materialist philosophy in the midst of a world shaped by forces such as digital and biotechnologies, global warming, global capital, and population flows. Moving away from modes of inquiry that have prioritized the study of consciousness and subjectivity over matter, the essays in this collection show that any account of experience, ag...(展开全部)

布罗尼斯拉夫·马林诺夫斯基（Bronislaw Malinowski，1884年—1942年），生于波兰，在英国成为著名人类学家。他是现代人类学的奠基人之一，倡导以功能论的思想和方法论从事文化的研究，著有《文化论》，讲述功能派的文化理论；《西太平洋的航海者》典范地展示现代田野工作与民族志方法；《文化动态论》，讲述文化变迁分析的方法，指出文化不是历史的残存，而是人生活的工具。 李安宅，1900年生，河北省迁安县人。字仁斋，笔名任责。中国著名社会学、人类学、民族学家。1926年燕京大学社会学系毕业，后赴美国深造。1938年赴甘肃拉卜楞寺对藏传佛教进行实地考察，后任教于成都华西大学。1947年到1949年在美英从事研究工作。1950年进藏任教。1962年任教于四川师范学院，1985年逝世。一生致力于民族学、宗教学、社会学、藏学的研究。译著和专著有《巫术科学...(展开全部)

The conflict between science and religion seems indelible, even eternal. Surely two such divergent views of the universe have always been in fierce opposition? Actually, that’s not the case, says Peter Harrison: our very concepts of science and religion are relatively recent, emerging only in the past three hundred years, and it is those very categories, rather than their under...(展开全部)

Today we hear renewed calls for a dialogue between science and religion: why has the old question of the relations between science and religion now returned to the public domain and what is at stake in this debate? To answer these questions, historian and sociologist of science Yves Gingras retraces the long history of the troubled relationship between science and religion, fro...(展开全部)