When young children first begin to ask 'why?' they embark on a journey with no final destination. The need to make sense of the world as a whole is an ultimate curiosity that lies at the root of all human religions. It has, in many cultures, shaped and motivated a more down to earth scientific interest in the physical world, which could therefore be described as penultimate curiosity.
These two manifestations of curiosity have a history of connection that goes back deep into the human past. Tracing that history all the way from cave painting to quantum physics, this book (a collaboration between a painter and a physical scientist that uses illustrations throughout the narrative) sets out to explain the nature of the long entanglement between religion and science: the ultimate and the penultimate curiosity.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9780198839286
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-0-19-883928-6
- Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
- Erscheinungstermin: 15.06.2019
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 2019
- Produktform: Kartoniert, Paperback
- Gewicht: 848 g
- Seiten: 496
- Format (B x H x T): 170 x 244 x 27 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
Themen
- Geisteswissenschaften
- Religionswissenschaft
- Sonstige Religionen
- Sonstige Religionen: Theologie, Doktrine
- Geisteswissenschaften
- Religionswissenschaft
- Sonstige Religionen
- Sonstige Religionen: Theologie, Doktrine
- Geisteswissenschaften
- Christentum, Christliche Theologie
- Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein
- Geisteswissenschaften
- Christentum, Christliche Theologie
- Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein
