Into all the World: expanding the History of Science and Religion beyond the Abrahamic Faiths

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2. Original titleInto all the World: expanding the History of Science and Religion beyond the Abrahamic Faiths
3. Language term English
4. lemma author Tampakis, Kostas
5. Publication date 12-11-2018
6. lemma work Into all the World: expanding the History of Science and Religion beyond the Abrahamic Faiths
7. lemma manifestations Almagest
8. Keywords Non-abrahamic religions - David Livingstone - Abrahim religions
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   1. This essay explores what happens when we try to incorporate the disparate religious traditions of the world into some kind of coherent narrative about science and religion. Unfortunately, there is no simple pattern, in part because notions of "science" and "religion" vary so much from culture to culture. Indeed, as the cultural historian David Livingstone once suggested, a precoccupation with how the relations between science and religion have been constructed in different societies might betray "a local Western perspective that is imperiously imposed on the rest of the world". What we do know is that within one and the same religious tradition (whether Abrahamic or non-Abrahamic) there can be resources both for the encouragement and obstruction of the sciences.