EMBODIED SCIENCE: RECENTERING RELIGION‐AND‐SCIENCE

Philip Hefner; Philip Hefner

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9744.2010.01071.x

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Neither religion nor science is first of all a realm of pure ideas, even though religion‐and‐science discussions often assume that they are. I propose that a concept of embodied science is more adequate and that religion‐and‐science should center its attention on science as enabler for improving the world (SEIW). This idea of science is rooted in Jerome Ravetz's concept of industrialized science and Donna Haraway's technoscience. SEIW describes the sociocultural context of science in commercial, government, and university settings. The chief focus of religion‐and‐science consequently takes into account five basic issues: (1) the kind of world we want, (2) liberating science, (3) human action and ethics, (4) religion and the world's possibilities, and (5) recovering myth. An underlying presupposition of the discussion is that understanding the world always involves as well an understanding of our being‐in‐the‐world.

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religion‐and‐science, embodied science, SEIW, Jerome Ravetz, possibility, Donna Haraway, technology

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Hefner, P., (2010) “EMBODIED SCIENCE: RECENTERING RELIGION‐AND‐SCIENCE”, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 45(1), 251–263. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9744.2010.01071.x

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