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The Landscapes of Science and Religion

Audiobook
Nonfiction: Religion
Unabridged   8 hour(s)
Publication date: 05/20/2025

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The Landscapes of Science and Religion

What Are We Disagreeing About?

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Digital Download ISBN:9781696617659

Summary

The latest book from the authors of Playing God: Science, Religion and the Future of Humanity.

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Product Description

The relationship between science and religion has long been a heated debate and is becoming an ever more popular topic. The scientific capacity to manipulate and change humans and their environment through genetic engineering, life extension, and AI is going to take a huge leap forward in the twenty-first century, provoking endless debates around humans "playing God."

But what do we mean by this? Asking this question is surprisingly hard work. Attempts to "essentialize" science, let alone religion, quickly run into trouble. Where are the boundaries? Whose definition of science is definitive? Which concept of religious is the authoritative one?

Ultimately, neither "science" nor "religion" can be pinned down to one single meaning or definition. Rather, they encompass a family of definitions that relate to one another in a complex web of shifting ways. Drawing on extensive research with over a hundred leading thinkers in the UK—including Martin Rees, Brian Cox, Susan Greenfield, A. C. Grayling, Ray Tallis, Linda Woodhead, Steve Bruce, Adam Rutherford, Robin Dunbar, Francesca Stavrakopoulou, and Iain McGilchrist—The Landscapes of Science and Religion takes the much-needed step of asking what science and religion actually are, before turning to the familiar question of how they relate to one another.

Author Bio

Nick Spencer is senior fellow at the religion and society think tank Theos and the host of the popular Reading our Times podcast. His books include Playing God, coauthored with Hannah Waite, Magisteria: The Entangled Histories of Science and Religion, and The Political Samaritan: How Power Hijacked a Parable. Hannah Waite worked as a researcher of science and religion at Theos from 2019–2023. She holds an MA in theology in psychology and counseling and a PhD in theology, both from the University of Aberdeen. She is also coauthor, with Nick Spencer, of Playing God: Science, Religion and the Future of Humanity.