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Author:   Jaume Navarro ,  Kostas Tampakis
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.500kg
ISBN:  

9781032320601

ISBN 10:   1032320605
Pages:   260
Publication Date:   26 May 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction. Science, Religion and Nationalism, or the entanglement of mythical narratives 2. “Ibn Sina the Turk”: Early 20th Century Turkish Nationalism, Islam, and the Historiography of Science 3. Science in Utopia: Tommaso Campanella’s City of the Sun in the Thought of Luigi Firpo 4. “Catholics, Natural Science, and National Belonging in Germany, 1830-1914” 5. “John William Draper and ‘Thoughts on the Future Civil Policy of America’” 6. Building a nation. Spanish Engineers in the Science-and-Religion narratives 7. The Education of the Argentine Nation. Positivists and Catholics on Science and Religion 8. Nineteenth-century Mexican nationalism, between liberalism and conservatism: positivism as the force of the nation 9. “Being Orthodox, Greek and modern: Scientists and Theologians in 19th and early 20th century Greece” 10. Between Darwin and Religion. Nation-building and the future of Poland 11. “Serving God, Fatherland, and Language”: Alcover, Catalan, and Science 12. Scientific atheism seen through the lens of historical museums

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Jaume Navarro is an Ikerbasque Research Professor at the University of the Basque Country. A historian of science, his interests lay in the history of physics and in the historiography of science and religion. He is author of, among others, A History of the Electron: J.J. and G.P. Thomson (2012) and Ether and Modernity (2018). Kostas Tampakis is a Senior Researcher in the National Hellenic Research Foundation. His research interests include the history of the relations of Orthodox Christianity and the sciences and the history of science in Southeastern Europe. He has coauthored, among others, Science and Orthodox Christianity: An Overview (2016).

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