{"product_id":"wild-experiment-9781478015628","title":"Wild Experiment","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExamining the reception of evolutionary biology, the 1925 Scopes Trial, and the New Atheist movement of the 2000s, Donovan O. Schaefer theorizes the relationship between thinking and feeling by challenging the conventional wisdom that they are separate.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Inaugurate[s] a project of secular theorization that adds a distinctive and needed methodological angle to studies of the secular in North America. . . . A must-read for scholars of American religions. . . .\" -- Valeria Vergani * American Religion *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eWild Experiment\u003c\/i\u003e is an indispensable addition to any course syllabus on race, religion, affect theory, and any interdisciplinary topic on the intersections between feeling and thinking.\" -- Abdulrahman Bindamnan * Material Religion *\u003cbr\u003e\"Through Schaefer’s endeavor to expand the conversation between secularism studies and STS, the field of STS has an illuminating new vantage from which to look at knowledge, feeling, and belief. And it feels right.\" * Society for the Social Studies of Science Ludwik Fleck Prize Committee *\u003cbr\u003e\"This fascinating book is a valuable contribution to the field of affect studies and secularism studies, as it starts a first conversation between these previously somewhat unconnected fields.\" -- Nur Yasemin Ural * Politics, Religion \u0026amp; Ideology *\u003cbr\u003e\"Perhaps humanities scholars such as Schaefer can be useful in the climate crisis. They can help scientists pay attention to how knowledge feels—and thus how to be more effective in communicating it.\" -- Amy Frykholm * Christian Century *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction. Cogency Theory: An Essay on Our Intellectual Affects  1\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Cogency Theory\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Longing to Believe: Philosophers on Conspiracy Theory and the Sense of Science  33\u003cbr\u003e 2. Sensualized Epistemology: Affect Theory on How Reason Gets Racialized  57\u003cbr\u003e 3. Science as an Intoxication: Secularism Studies on Enchantment and Critique  80\u003cbr\u003e 4. Feeling is Believing: The Triune Brain, Mere Exposure, and Cogency  107\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Feeling Science and Secularism\u003cbr\u003e 5. Only Better Beasts: Darwin, Huxley, and the Sense of Science  137\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Secular Circus: Science and Racialized Reason in the Scopes Trial  169\u003cbr\u003e 7. The Four Horsemen: New Atheism as Secular Conspiracy Theory  200\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue. From Creationism to Climate Denialism  230\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  239\u003cbr\u003e Notes  243\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  281\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408999391575,"sku":"9781478015628","price":75.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478015628.jpg?v=1730505036","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/wild-experiment-9781478015628","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}