Chapter Eight. Science in Action, Religion in Thought: Catholic Charismatics’ Notions about Illness

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: Science, Religion and Forms of Life 1
4. Part I Cognition
5. Chapter One. Maturationally Natural Cognition Impedes Professional Science and Facilitates Popular Religion 25
6. Chapter Two. Scientific versus Religious ‘Knowledge’ in Evolutionary Perspective 49
7. Chapter Three. Magic and Ritual in an Age of Science 62
8. Part II Beyond Science
9. Chapter Four. Moral Employments of Scientific Thought 87
10. Chapter Five. The Social Life of Concepts: Public and Private ‘Knowledge’ of Scientific Creationism 104
11. Chapter Six. The Embryo, Sacred and Profane 120
12. Chapter Seven. The Religions of Science and the Sciences of Religion in Brazil 137
13. Chapter Eight. Science in Action, Religion in Thought: Catholic Charismatics’ Notions about Illness 153
14. Part III Meaning Systems
15. Chapter Nine. On the Resilience of Superstition 173
16. Chapter Ten. Religion, Magic and Practical Reason: Meaning and Everyday Life in Contemporary Ireland 188
17. Chapter Eleven. Can the Dead Suffer Trauma? Religion and Science after the Vietnam War 207
18. Notes on Contributors 221
19. Index 225