INTRODUCTION

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1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
4. INTRODUCTION 1
5. PART I VALUES
6. Introduction 17
7. 1 Scripture of False Smiles: Lying with Erving Goffman 21
8. 2 Nihilism, Race, and the Critical Study of Science and Religion 41
9. 3 A Feminist Theology of Abortion 61
10. 4 Can Originalism Save Bioethics? 87
11. PART II BOUNDARIES
12. Introduction 101
13. 5 Spiriting the Johnstons: Producing Science and Religion Under Settler Colonial Rule 105
14. 6 Dark Gods in the Age of Light: The Lightbulb, the Japanese Deification of Thomas Edison, and the Entangled Constructions of Religion and Science 127
15. 7 Questioning the Sacred Cow: Science, Religion, and Race in the United States and India 159
16. 8 “And God Knows Best”: Knowledge, Expertise, and Trust in the Postcolonial Web-Sphere 181
17. PART III NARRATIVES
18. Introduction 203
19. 9 Secular Grace in the Age of Environmentalism 207
20. 10 Performing Polygenism: Science, Religion, and Race in the Enlightenment 229
21. 11 Out of Africa: Where Faith, Race, and Science Collide 255
22. PART IV COHERENCE
23. Introduction 277
24. 12 Kānaka Maoli Voyaging Technology and Geography Beyond Colonial Difference 281
25. 13 Speculation Is Not a Metaphor: More than Varieties of Cryobiological Experience 304
26. 14 Maroon Science: Knowledge, Secrecy, and Crime in Jamaica 325
27. 15 Obeah Simplified? Scientism, Magic, and the Problem of Universals 348
28. CONCLUSION 375
29. LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS 381
30. INDEX 385