The Warfare between Science & Religion

A “very welcome volume” of essays questioning the presumption of irreconcilable conflict between science and religion ( British Journal for the History of Science ). The “conflict thesis”—the idea that an inevitable, irreconcilable conflict exists between science and religion—has long been part of the popular imagination. The Warfare between Science and Religion assembles a group of distinguished historians who explore the origin of the thesis, its reception, the responses it drew from various f