Nature, Science, and Religion: Intersections Shaping Society and the Environment Tapa blanda - 2012

Santa Fe: SAR Press, 2012. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 9" X 6". xiii, 285pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: This book is about the complicated and provocative ways nature, science, and religion intersect in real settings where people attempt to live in harmony with the physical environment. Scholars of philosophy, religious studies, and science and technology have been at the forefront of critiquing the roles of religion and science in human interactions with the natural world. Meanwhile, researchers in the environmental sciences have encountered disciplinary barriers to examining the possibility that religious beliefs influence social-ecological behaviors and processes simply because the issue resists quantitative assessment. The contributors to this book explore how scientific knowledge and spiritual beliefs are engaged to shape natural resource management, environmental activism,… Leer más

Paperback / softback. New. Nature, science, religion. Each term carries with it claims to truth: nature inasmuch as it conveys our beliefs of how things naturally are and should be; science in and through its methods, evident results, and institutional prestige; and religion in its objects and the commitments they generate among devotees.

School for Advanced Research on the, 2012. Paperback. New. 285 pages. 8.75x5.75x0.75 inches.

School for Advanced Research on the, 2012. Paperback. New. 285 pages. 8.75x5.75x0.75 inches.

New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Nature, science, religion. Each term carries with it claims to truth: nature inasmuch as it conveys our beliefs of how things naturally are and should be; science in and through its methods, evident results, and institutional prestige;