{"product_id":"magisteria-the-entangled-histories-of-science-religion-9780861547302","title":"Magisteria: The Entangled Histories of Science \u0026 Religion","description":"\u003cb\u003eScience and religion have always been at each other's throats, right?\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMost things you 'know' about science and religion are myths or half-truths that grew up in the last years of the nineteenth century and remain widespread today.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A deeply researched history of the interplay between the two ways of understanding the world.' \u003ci\u003eECONOMIST\u003c\/i\u003e, BEST BOOKS OF 2023\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe true history of science and religion is a human one. It's about the role of religion in inspiring, and strangling, science before the scientific revolution. It's about the sincere but eccentric faith and the quiet, creeping doubts of the most brilliant scientists in history - Galileo, Newton, Faraday, Darwin, Maxwell, Einstein. Above all it's about the question of what it means to be human and who gets to say - a question that is more urgent in the twenty-first century than ever before. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom eighth-century Baghdad to the frontiers of AI today, via medieval Europe, nineteenth-century India and Soviet Russia, \u003ci\u003eMagisteria\u003c\/i\u003e sheds new light on this complex historical landscape. Rejecting the thesis that science and religion are inevitably at war, Nicholas Spencer illuminates a compelling and troubled relationship that has definitively shaped human history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNicholas Spencer\u003c\/b\u003e is Senior Fellow at Theos, a Fellow of International Society for Science and Religion and a Visiting Research Fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is the author of a number of books including \u003ci\u003eDarwin and God\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Evolution of the West\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAtheists\u003c\/i\u003e. He has presented a BBC Radio 4 series on \u003ci\u003eThe Secret History of Science and Religion\u003c\/i\u003e, and has written for the \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTelegraph\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eProspect\u003c\/i\u003e and more.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oneworld Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51174981075218,"sku":"9780861547302","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_29313ec7-7ef6-462f-a838-2502f976416f.jpg?v=1744280622","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/magisteria-the-entangled-histories-of-science-religion-9780861547302","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}