| Description |
viii, 334 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 298-322) and index. |
| Contents |
Culture and cognition -- Addressing the critics -- Cognitive styles in primitive cultures -- Archaic thought, preliterate and literate -- The Axial Age and the classical style of thought -- Philosophy, religion, and science in Western antiquity -- The decline and recovery of classical rationality in the West -- Early modern models of reality in science and religion -- The method of modern empirical science -- Religious responses to modern science. |
| Summary |
"In Stages of Thought, Michael Barnes examines a pattern of cognitive development that has evolved over thousands of years - a pattern manifest in both science and religion. He describes how the major world cultures built upon our natural human language skills to add literacy, logic, and, now, a highly critical self-awareness. In tracing the histories of both scientific and religious thought, Barnes shows why we think the way that we do today." "This book offers a thorough and persuasive argument in favor of the development of modes of thought across cultures. It will serve as an invaluable resource for historians of religion, philosophers and historians of science, and anyone interested in the relationship between religion and science."--Jacket. |
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Religion and science.
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Religion and science -- History.
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Religion and science. (OCoLC)fst01093848
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Geloof en wetenschap.
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Geschichte (DE-588)4020517-4
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Naturwissenschaften (DE-588)4041421-8
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Religion (DE-588)4049396-9
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Religion.
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Naturwissenschaften.
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Geschichte.
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| ISBN |
0195133897 (alk. paper) |
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9780195133899 (alk. paper) |
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