Religion and Science as Forms of Life: Anthropological Insights into Reason and Unreason

Contents\nIntroduction: Science, Religion and Forms of Life\nPart I Cognition\nChapter One. Maturationally Natural Cognition Impedes Professional Science and Facilitates Popular Religion\nChapter Two. Scientific versus Religious ‘Knowledge’ in Evolutionary Perspective\nChapter Three. Magic and Ritual in an Age of Science\nPart II Beyond Science\nChapter Four. Moral Employments of Scientific Thought\nChapter Five. The Social Life of Concepts: Public and Private ‘Knowledge’ of Scientific Creationism\nChapter Six. The Embryo, Sacred and Profane\nChapter Seven. The Religions of Science and the Sciences of Religion in Brazil\nChapter Eight. Science in Action, Religion in Thought: Catholic Charismatics’ Notions about Illness\nPart III Meaning Systems\nChapter Nine. On the Resilience of Superstition\nChapter Ten. Religion, Magic and Practical Reason: Meaning and Everyday Life in Contemporary Ireland\nChapter Eleven. Can the Dead Suffer Trauma? Religion and Science after the Vietnam War\nNotes on Contributors\nIndex