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Irish Catholicism and Science - From "Godless Colleges" to the Celtic Tiger (Hardcover)
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Irish Catholicism and Science - From "Godless Colleges" to the Celtic Tiger (Hardcover)
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Science and Roman Catholicism have both acted as powerful agents of
change in Ireland and elsewhere. But the interaction between
Catholicism and science in Ireland has received very little
attention from historians to date. The purpose of this book,
therefore, is to address this longstanding deficiency in Irish
historical literature. There is a strong international dimension to
this study. The period of interest is from the Famine to the
"Celtic Tiger." The subject matter encompasses a diverse range of
topics. Issues indigenous to Ireland include recurring
controversies about university education, the relative paucity of
Catholics scientists in nineteenth-century Ireland, the perception
of science as a trait of a Protestant and colonial mindset,
anti-Catholicism and science, the economic and political conditions
in the Irish Free State which worked against the growth of science
in Ireland, and the impact of science and technology on Irish
Catholicism in recent decades. These subjects are interweaved with
topics which extend far beyond Irish interest - such as
evolutionary debates, the question of whether or not Catholicism
was compatible with science, anti-modernism in the Catholic Church,
Vatican pronouncements on science, the theological implications of
extra-terrestrial life and of Big Bang cosmology, whether human
freewill is real or not, and the importance of science in arguments
about the existence of God.
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