Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction | Fern Elsdon-Baker and Bernard Lightman
Part I. The Public Sphere
1. From Conflict to Complexity: Historians and Nineteenth-Century Public Perceptions of Science and Religion | Bernard Lightman, Sylvia Nickerson, and Parandis Tajbakhsh
2. Creating Hard-Line “Secular” Evolutionists: The Influence of Question Design on Our Understanding of Public Perceptions of Clash Narratives | Fern Elsdon-Baker
3. Science and Religion Conflict in the United States: A Closer Look at the Polls | Jonathan P. Hill
4. Evolution on the Small Screen: Reflections on Media, Science, and Religion in Twentieth-Century Britain | Alexander Hall
Part II. Conflict and Identity
5. Life Story: Oral Histories in the Field of Science and Religion | Paul Merchant
6. Science and Religion as Lived Experience: Narratives of Evolution among British and Canadian Publics and Life Scientists | Stephen H. Jones and Tom Kaden
7. Beyond Belief Systems: Promoting a Social Identity Approach to the Study of Science and Religion | Carissa A. Sharp and Carola Leicht
Part III. Secularization
8. The Conflict Narrative, Group Identity, and the Uses of History | Peter Harrison
9. Secularization: What Has Science Got to Do with It? | Amy Unsworth
10. Science as Secular: Dynamics of Reflection, Tolerance, and Contestation in British and Canadian Scientific Workplaces | Rebecca Catto
Part IV. Future Directions: Methodological and Theoretical
11. The Methodological Challenges and Possibilities of Social Scientific Study of Religion and Science across National Contexts | Elaine Howard Ecklund, David R. Johnson, and Robert A. Thomson Jr.
12. Possibilities for Future Elite Conflict between Science and Religion | John H. Evans
Coda | Fern Elsdon-Baker and Bernard Lightman
Notes
Selected Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index