Consecrating Science
eBook - PDF

Consecrating Science

  1. 296 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Consecrating Science

About this book

Debunking myths behind what is known collectively as the new cosmology—a grand, overlapping set of narratives that claim to bring science and spirituality together—Lisa H. Sideris offers a searing critique of the movement's anthropocentric vision of the world. In Consecrating Science, Sideris argues that instead of cultivating an ethic of respect for nature, the new cosmology encourages human arrogance, uncritical reverence for science, and indifference to nonhuman life. Exploring moral sensibilities rooted in experience of the natural world, Sideris shows how a sense of wonder can foster environmental attitudes that will protect our planet from ecological collapse for years to come.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Consecrating Science
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. CONTENTS
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction: The Return of Mythopoeic Science
  9. 1. Seeking What Is Good in Wonder
  10. 2. The Book of Nature and the Book of Science: Richard Dawkins on Wonder
  11. 3. E. O. Wilson’s Ionian Enchantment: A Tale of Two Realities
  12. 4. Evolutionary Enchantment and Denatured Religious Naturalism
  13. 5. Anthropic and Anthropocene Narratives of the New Cosmology
  14. 6. Genesis 2.0: The Epic of Evolution as Religion of Reality
  15. 7. Making Sense of Wonder
  16. Notes
  17. Glossary of Terms
  18. References
  19. Index

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