Description

Navigating Post-Truth and Alternative Facts: Religion and Science as Political Theology is an edited volume that explores the critical intersection of “religion-and-science” and our contemporary political and social landscape with a tailored eye towards the epistemological and hermeneutical impact of the “post-truth society.” The rise of the post-truth society has specific importance and inherent risk for nearly all academic disciplines and researchers. When personal beliefs regarding climate change trump scientific consensus, research projects are defunded, results are hidden or undermined, and all of us are at a greater vulnerability to extreme weather patterns. When expertise itself becomes suspect, we become a nation lead by fools. When data is overcome by alternative facts and truth in any form is suspect, where is the space for religious and/or scientific scholarship? The central curiosity of this volume is “what is the role of religion and science scholarship in a post-truth society?” This text explores truth, lies, fear, populism, politics, faith, the environment, post modernity, and our shared public life.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Lisa Stenmark and Whitney Bauman
Preface: Post-truth, Fake News, and Alternative Facts . . . Oh, My!
Jennifer Baldwin
Introduction: The Reformation and Our Common Responsibility for the World Today
Antje Jackelén

Part I: Finding Truth

1. Modern Political Lying: Science and Religion as Critical Discourse in a Post-Truth World
Lisa Stenmark
2. The Power of Lies and the Lies of Power
Ted Peters
3. The Golden Mean in a Political Darwinism: Science, Religion, and Authenticity
Paul Allen
4. Making America Humble Again: Humility and Magnanimity as Greatness in a Post-veridical World
Craig Boyd

Part II: Affect and the Public Trust

5. Rationality in Play?: A Philosophical Journey in the Current Landscape of Facts and Truth
Knut-Willy Sæther
6. The Anxiety of Alternative Facts: Considering the Role of Religion and Science in Forming Public Values Spanning Political Divisiveness
Adam Pryor
7. Knowledge, Power, and Fear: The Role of Religion and Science in Populism and Our Shared Public Life
Jennifer Baldwin

Part III: Politics, Religion, and the Environment

8. Confessions of a Recovering Objectivist: Religion/Science as Engaged Theology and Environmental Strategy
Philip Clayton
9. Religion and Science as Critical Discourse: Postmodern as Contextual Thinking, not Post-truth
Whitney Bauman
10. The Puppet, the Dwarf, and Political Theologies of Science
Graham Walker

Product details

Published Aug 06 2020
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 198
ISBN 9781498580106
Imprint Lexington Books
Dimensions 232 x 153 mm
Series Religion and Science as a Critical Discourse
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Jennifer Baldwin

Contributor

Paul Allen

Contributor

Whitney Bauman

Contributor

Craig Boyd

Contributor

Philip Clayton

Contributor

Ted Peters

Contributor

Adam Pryor

Contributor

Lisa Stenmark

Contributor

Graham Walker

Introduction

Antje Jackelén

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