{"product_id":"science-religion-and-nationalism-9781032320618","title":"Science Religion and Nationalism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eScience and Religion have been two major elements in the building of modern nation-states. While contemporary historiography of science has studied the interactions between nation building and the construction of modern scientific and technological institutions, science-and-religion is still largely based on a supposed universal historiography in which global notions of science and of religion are seldom challenged.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book explores the interface between science, religion and nationalism at a local level, paying attention to the roles religious institutions, specific confessional traditions, or an undefined notion of religion played in the construction of modern science in national contexts: the use of anti-clerical rhetoric as scapegoat for a perceived scientific and technological backwardness; the part of religious tropes in the emergence of a sense of belonging in new states; the creation of invented traditions that included religious and scientific myths so as to promote\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Introduction. Science, Religion and Nationalism, or the entanglement of mythical narratives 2. “Ibn Sina the Turk”: Early 20th Century Turkish Nationalism, Islam, and the Historiography of Science 3. Science in Utopia: Tommaso Campanella’s City of the Sun in the Thought of Luigi Firpo 4. “Catholics, Natural Science, and National Belonging in Germany, 1830-1914” 5. “John William Draper and ‘Thoughts on the Future Civil Policy of America’” 6. Building a nation. Spanish Engineers in the Science-and-Religion narratives 7. The Education of the Argentine Nation. Positivists and Catholics on Science and Religion 8. Nineteenth-century Mexican nationalism, between liberalism and conservatism: positivism as the force of the nation 9. “Being Orthodox, Greek and modern: Scientists and Theologians in 19th and early 20th century Greece” 10. Between Darwin and Religion. Nation-building and the future of Poland 11. “Serving God, Fatherland, and Language”: Alcover, Catalan, and Science 12. Scientific atheism seen through the lens of historical museums\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018972234071,"sku":"9781032320618","price":128.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781032320618.jpg?v=1750778869","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/science-religion-and-nationalism-9781032320618","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}