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This book provides an in-depth ethnographic study of science and
religion in the context of South Asia, giving voice to Indian
scientists and shedding valuable light on their engagement with
religion. Drawing on biographical, autobiographical, historical,
and ethnographic material, the volume focuses on scientists’
religious life and practices, and the variety of ways in which they
express them. Renny Thomas challenges the idea that science and
religion in India are naturally connected and argues that the
discussion has to go beyond binary models of ‘conflict’ and
‘complementarity’. By complicating the understanding of science
and religion in India, the book engages with new ways of looking at
these categories.
This volume explores how the scientific method enters and
determines the dominant methodologies of various modern academic
disciplines. It highlights the ways in which practitioners from
different disciplinary backgrounds -- the humanities, the natural
sciences, and the social sciences -- engage with the scientific
method in their own disciplines. The book maps the discourse
(within each of the disciplines) that critiques the scientific
method, from different social locations, in order to argue for more
complex and nuanced approaches in methodology. It also investigates
the connections between the method and the structures of power and
domination which exist within these disciplines. In the process, it
offers a new way of thinking about the philosophy of the scientific
method. Part of the Science and Technology Studies series, this
volume is the first of its kind in the South Asian context to
debate scientific methods and address questions by scholars based
in the global south. It will be useful to students and
practitioners of science, humanities, social sciences, philosophy
of science, and philosophy of social science. Research scholars
from these disciplines, especially those engaging in
interdisciplinary research, will also benefit from this volume.
This book provides an in-depth ethnographic study of science and
religion in the context of South Asia, giving voice to Indian
scientists and shedding valuable light on their engagement with
religion. Drawing on biographical, autobiographical, historical,
and ethnographic material, the volume focuses on scientists'
religious life and practices, and the variety of ways in which they
express them. Renny Thomas challenges the idea that science and
religion in India are naturally connected and argues that the
discussion has to go beyond binary models of 'conflict' and
'complementarity'. By complicating the understanding of science and
religion in India, the book engages with new ways of looking at
these categories.
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