0 itemsGeology and Religion: A History of Harmony and Hostility
| Product Code: | SP310 |
| Type: | Book |
| Series: | GSL Special Publications |
| Ten Digit ISBN: | 1-86239-269-2 |
| Thirteen Digit ISBN: | 9781862392694 |
| Author/Editor: | Edited by M Kolbl-Ebert |
| Publisher: | GSL |
| Publication Date: | 11 March 2009 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| Pages: | 368 |
| Weight: | 1.00kg |
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| Description
For thousands of years, religious ideas have shaped the thoughts and actions of human beings. Many of the early geological concepts were initially developed within this context. The long-standing relationship between geology and religious thought, which has been sometimes indifferent, sometimes fruitful and sometimes full of conflict, is discussed from a historical point of view. This relationship continues into the present. Although Christian fundamentalists attack evolution and related palaeontological findings as well as the geological evidence for the age of the Earth, mainstream theologians strive for a fruitful dialogue between science and religion. Much of what is written and discussed today can only be understood within the historical perspective. This book considers the development of geology from mythological approaches towards the European Enlightenment, biblical or geological Flood and the age of the Earth, geology within ‘religious’ organizations, biographical case studies of geological clerics and religious geologists, religion and evolution, and historical aspects of creationism and its motives. |
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Contents Introduction Geology and religion: a historical perspective on current problems, M Kölbl-Ebert Jean-André de Luc (1727–1817): an atheist’s comparative view of the historiography, D R Oldroyd From mythological approaches towards the European EnlightenmentWater and Inca cosmogony: myths, geology and engineering in the Peruvian Andes, L F Mazadiego, O Puche & S A M HerváExplanations of the Earth’s features and origin in pre-Meiji Japan, P Barbaro The providence of mineral generation in the sermons of Johann Mathesius (1504–1565), J A Norris Earthquakes as God’s punishment in 17th- and 18th-century Spain, A Udías The idiom of a six day creation and global depictions in Theories of the Earth, K V Magruder The fossil proboscideans of Utica (Tunisia), a key to the ‘giant’ controversy, from Saint Augustine (424) to Peiresc (1632), G Godard Flood conceptions in Vallisneri’s thought, F Luzzini The Flood and the age of the EarthDiscussing the age of the Earth in 1779 in Portugal, M S Pinto & F AmadorOn the Earth’s revolutions: floods and extinct volcanoes in northern Italy at the end of the eighteenth century, A Candela Scheuchzer, von Haller and de Luc: geological world-views and religious backgrounds in opposition or collaboration? C Schweizer Biblical Flood and geological deluge: the amicable dissociation of geology and Genesis, M J S Rudwick ‘Our favourite science’: Lord Bute and James Parkinson searching for a Theory of the Earth, C L E Lewis Cuvier’s attitude toward creation and the biblical Flood, P Taquet
Jesuits’ studies of earthquakes and seismological stations, A Udías |
Reviews
....a fascinating book with provocative contributions on unusual topics that have a bearing on the development of the science geology. The book is warmly recommended to all natural scientist interested in history and in particular to geologists that want to widen their outlook on their chosen profession.
Tom Reijers
Geo-Training & Travel, The Netherlands
This review was submitted by:
Mrs Julie Webster
16 June 2009
The editor has done a fantastic job in getting all this information together! It is a heavy book - and not just because it weights 2/12 pounds. It's very scholarly, often very detailed, with lots and lots of names and background. It requires some historical, theological and science background.........it is a terric book.
Janet Tanaka, Washington, USA
This review was submitted by:
Mrs Julie Webster
15 September 2009
In our days geology and religion is often restricted to the conflict of natural scientists and creationists with their strong belief in the bible. Thus the book covers more than just this aspect, as the editor writes in the introduction (“Geology and religion: a historical perspective on current problems”), where someone may read: “From such thoughts, and of course the papers in this volume, the reader may gather that the relationship is much more complex than might be supposed at first glace.”
In fact the 30 papers reveal a wide thematic range offering some interesting spotlights in the history of religion starting even at a time when the terminus “geology” did not even exist.
Thus the books may be recommended to all who are interested in the various aspects of geology and religion. Readers might learn from the historical context that there is enough space for personal positions in between geology and religion.
Review by Thomas Hofmann
Review was featured in Jahrbuch Der Geologischen Bundesanstalt, Band 149, 2009
This review was submitted by:
Mrs Julie Webster
30 September 2010
In spite of the fact that the first language of many of the authors is not English, the book is very well edited, well illustrated, and free of typographical errors. …..This book offers an excellent sampling of the history of that relationship, presented in many more chapters than I have space to discuss in this brief review.
Review by: Stephen M Rowland
Review was featured in Reports of the National Center for Science Education, Jul-Aug 2010-10-25
This review was submitted by:
Mrs Julie Webster
25 October 2010
Thanks to the care lavished on it by Kolbl-Ebert, the book is immaculately edited. Its value for the scholar and student is enhanced by the full bibliographies that accompany each essay, by the many useful and superbly reproduced illustrations, and by the index, which – refreshingly, for an edited volume – contains objects and concepts as well as people’s names. I hope that its exorbitant price (unfortunately typical of this press) will not discourage libraries from purchasing this important and enjoyable book.
Review By: Ralph O’Connon
Featured in Book Reviews – ISIS, 101 : 3 (2010)
This review was submitted by:
Mrs Julie Webster
01 March 2011