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Dec 27, 2024
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HIST 535 - Science and Religion in America
Explores the interaction between scientific thought and religious belief in America from colonial times to the present. Major topics considered include the European background to the American experience; the Puritan outlook on scientific thought in the colonial period; the American enlightenment and revival experience; the reception of evolutionary thought and the rise of social Darwinism; the impact of social science and the social gospel; the relationship between science and fundamentalism in the twentieth century; and the new physics and new cosmology.
Credits: (3)
Requisites
Pr.: Sophomore standing.
When Offered
II, in alternate years
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