Navigating Post-Truth and Alternative Facts (eBook, ePUB)

Religion and Science as Political Theology
Redaktion: Baldwin, Jennifer

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Navigating Post-Truth and Alternative Facts: Religion and Science as Political Theology is an edited volume that explores the critical intersection of "religion-and-science" and our contemporary political and social landscape with a tailored eye towards the epistemological and hermeneutical impact of the "post-truth society." The rise of the post-truth society has specific importance and inherent risk for nearly all academic disciplines and researchers. When personal beliefs regarding climate change trump scientific consensus, research projects are defunded, results are hidden or undermined, and all of us are at a greater vulnerability to extreme weather patterns. When expertise itself becomes suspect, we become a nation lead by fools. When data is overcome by alternative facts and truth in any form is suspect, where is the space for religious and/or scientific scholarship? The central curiosity of this volume is "what is the role of religion and science scholarship in a post-truth society?" This text explores truth, lies, fear, populism, politics, faith, the environment, post modernity, and our shared public life.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498580090
• Artikelnr.: 53637224

Autorenporträt

Jennifer Baldwin is director of Grounding Flight Wellness Center.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Lisa Stenmark and Whitney Bauman
Preface: Post-truth, Fake News, and Alternative Facts . . . Oh, My!
Jennifer Baldwin
Introduction: The Reformation and Our Common Responsibility for the World
Today
Antje Jackelén
Part I: Finding Truth
1. Modern Political Lying: Science and Religion as Critical Discourse in a
Post-Truth World
Lisa Stenmark
2. The Power of Lies and the Lies of Power
Ted Peters
3. The Golden Mean in a Political Darwinism: Science, Religion, and
Authenticity
Paul Allen
4. Making America Humble Again: Humility and Magnanimity as Greatness in a
Post-veridical World
Craig Boyd
Part II: Affect and the Public Trust
5. Rationality in Play?: A Philosophical Journey in the Current Landscape
of Facts and Truth
Knut-Willy Sæther
6. The Anxiety of Alternative Facts: Considering the Role of Religion and
Science in Forming Public Values Spanning Political Divisiveness
Adam Pryor
7. Knowledge, Power, and Fear: The Role of Religion and Science in Populism
and Our Shared Public Life
Jennifer Baldwin
Part III: Politics, Religion, and the Environment
8. Confessions of a Recovering Objectivist: Religion/Science as Engaged
Theology and Environmental Strategy
Philip Clayton
9. Religion and Science as Critical Discourse: Postmodern as Contextual
Thinking, not Post-truth
Whitney Bauman
10. The Puppet, the Dwarf, and Political Theologies of Science
Graham Walker