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Science and Religious Experience: Are They Similar Forms of Knowledge?
Grahame Miles
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Description for Science and Religious Experience: Are They Similar Forms of Knowledge?
Paperback. Many people believe that science provides facts while religion is just opinion or beliefs. This book explores the structure and value of science and religious experience, and demonstrates how similar they are and how equally valuable and valid they are. Num Pages: 429 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HRAB; PDA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 245 x 172 x 24. Weight in Grams: 792.
Many people believe that science provides facts while religion is just opinion or beliefs. This book explores the structure and value of science and religious experience, and demonstrates how similar they are and how equally valuable and valid they are. After defining different forms of knowledge, e.g. biological, personal, moral, religious, the author explains how the structures of both the humanities and the sciences involve what we grasp through our senses, and how we interpret those impressions first by description, then by evidence collected, then by reason and understanding -- all based on the foundation of basic beliefs. One can ... Read more
Many people believe that science provides facts while religion is just opinion or beliefs. This book explores the structure and value of science and religious experience, and demonstrates how similar they are and how equally valuable and valid they are. After defining different forms of knowledge, e.g. biological, personal, moral, religious, the author explains how the structures of both the humanities and the sciences involve what we grasp through our senses, and how we interpret those impressions first by description, then by evidence collected, then by reason and understanding -- all based on the foundation of basic beliefs. One can ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
429
Condition
New
Number of Pages
429
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845191177
SKU
V9781845191177
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Ref
99-12
About Grahame Miles
Grahame Miles taught Religious Education in Grammar and Comprehensive Schools, in selective and open-access Sixth Form Colleges, and in Primary Schools. He was Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies at Homerton College in the University of Cambridge from 1968 to 1997. Two research projects focused on the development of religious concepts, attitudes and understanding in students aged 15-18, and one project ... Read more
Reviews for Science and Religious Experience: Are They Similar Forms of Knowledge?
"This is a fascinating read as well as an invaluable resource for students and teachers, a comprehensive account of a vast and complex subject."
Marianne Rankin, Chair of the Alister Hardy Society, in the BASR Bulletin, 2008.
Marianne Rankin, Chair of the Alister Hardy Society, in the BASR Bulletin, 2008.