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Scientific Mythologies

Author : James A. Herrick
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830825886
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Scientific Mythologies written by James A. Herrick and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does science have to do with science fiction? What does science fiction have to do with scientists? What does religion have to do with science and science fiction? In the spiritual vacuum of our post-Christian West, new mythologies continually arise. The sources of much religious speculation, however, may be surprising. Author James Herrick directs our attention to a wide range of scientists, filmmakers, science fiction writers and religious philosophers and discovers there the role that science and science fiction have played in such mythmaking. From scientists such as Francis Bacon, Francis Crick, Carl Sagan and Freeman Dyson, to filmmakers such as George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, to science fiction writers such as Olaf Stapledon, Sir Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Heinlein and Isaac Asimov, Herrick finds a curious collusion of science with science fiction for promoting and justifying alternative spiritualities. The rise of these new mythologies, he argues, is no longer a curiosity at the edge of Western culture. This alchemy is catalyzing a religious vision of new gods, a new humanity, and alien races with superior intelligence and secret knowledge. This new mythology overshadows the realms of politics, science and religion. Should we follow such visions? Does science endorse these mythologies? Are we being offered a spirituality superior to the Judeo-Christian tradition? This book will help you decide.

The Mythology of Evolution

Author : Chris Bateman
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1780996497
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Mythology of Evolution written by Chris Bateman and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09-16 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book liberates evolution from misrepresentative scientific myths to find a more nuanced vision of life that shows how advantages persist, trust is beneficial, and the diversity of species emerges.

Ancient Mythology of Modern Science

Author : Gregory Allen Schrempp
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773539891
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Ancient Mythology of Modern Science written by Gregory Allen Schrempp and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2012 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the nature of myth-making and its surprising appearance in popular science writing.

Mythologies

Author : Roland Barthes
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0809071940
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Mythologies written by Roland Barthes and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-03-12 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This new edition of MYTHOLOGIES is the first complete, authoritative English version of the French classic, Roland Barthes's most emblematic work"--

The Science of Myths and Vice Versa

Author : Gregory Schrempp
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780996635509
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book The Science of Myths and Vice Versa written by Gregory Schrempp and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We often assume that science and myth stand in opposition, but the rhetoric of contemporary popular science and related genres tells a different story about what contemporary readers really want from science. This book shows how writers such as Malcolm Gladwell and Michael Pollan successfully fuse science and myth to offer compelling narratives about how we can improve our understanding of ourselves and our world.

Against Automation Mythologies

Author : J. Jesse Ramirez
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000169618
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Against Automation Mythologies written by J. Jesse Ramirez and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by Roland Barthes’s practice of "semioclasm" in Mythologies, this book offers a "technoclasm"; a cultural critique of US narratives, discourses, images, and objects that have transformed the politics of automation into statements of fact about the "rise of the robots". Treating automation as an ensemble of technologies and science fictions, this book foregrounds automation’s ideologies, exaggerations, failures, and mystifications of the social value of human labor in order to question accepted and prolific automation mythologies. Jesse Ramirez offers a study of automation that recognizes automation as a technosocial project, that uses the tools of cultural studies and history to investigate the narratives and ideologies that often implicitly frame the automation debate, and that concretely and soberly assesses the technologies that have made the headlines. The case studies featured include some of the most widely cited and celebrated automatic technologies, such as the Baxter industrial robot, the self-driving car, and the Watson AI system. An ideal resource for anyone interested in or studying emerging technology and society, automation, Marxist cultural theory, cultural studies, science fiction studies, and the cultural history of technology.

Unbelievable

Author : Michael Newton Keas
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504057724
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Unbelievable written by Michael Newton Keas and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unbelievable explodes seven of the most popular and pernicious myths about science and religion. Michael Newton Keas, a historian of science, lays out the facts to show how far the conventional wisdom departs from reality. He also shows how these myths have proliferated over the past four centuries and exert so much influence today, infiltrating science textbooks and popular culture. The seven myths, Keas shows, amount to little more than religion bashing—especially Christianity bashing. Unbelievable reveals: · Why the “Dark Ages” never happened · Why we didn’t need Christopher Columbus to prove the earth was round · Why Copernicus would be shocked to learn that he supposedly demoted humans from the center of the universe · What everyone gets wrong about Galileo’s clash with the Church, and why it matters today · Why the vastness of the universe does not deal a blow to religious belief in human significance · How the popular account of Giordano Bruno as a “martyr for science” ignores the fact that he was executed for theological reasons, not scientific ones · How a new myth is being positioned to replace religion—a futuristic myth that sounds scientific but isn’t In debunking these myths, Keas shows that the real history is much more interesting than the common narrative of religion at war with science. This accessible and entertaining book offers an invaluable resource to students, scholars, teachers, homeschoolers, and religious believers tired of being portrayed as anti-intellectual and anti-science.

Francisco Suárez (1548–1617)

Author : Robert Aleksander Maryks
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004395652
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Francisco Suárez (1548–1617) written by Robert Aleksander Maryks and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a bilingual edition of the selected peer-reviewed papers that were submitted for the International Symposium on Jesuit Studies on the thought of the Jesuit Francisco Suárez (1548–1617). The symposium was co-organized in Seville in 2018 by the Departamento de Humanidades y Filosofía at Universidad Loyola Andalucía and the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at Boston College.

The Global Myths

Author : Alexander Eliot
Publisher : Plume
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Global Myths written by Alexander Eliot and published by Plume. This book was released on 1994 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Myth is universal - a common heritage to all humanity. The myths in this book, gathered during travels, are re-imagined on the ground where they originally occurred, providing a sense of place for each tale

American Mythologies

Author : Manuel Peña
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317182294
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book American Mythologies written by Manuel Peña and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Mythologies examines eleven myths that form part of the storehouse of present-day American mythologies, elucidating the nature of contemporary myths by investigating their ideological sub-terrain. Grounded in a semiological approach, which explores the displacement of information and the transformation of signs that characterise mythic communication, this book sheds light on the socio-economic, gendered, national and racial interests that lie behind myth-making. Presenting rich case studies from popular culture and public discourse, it demonstrates the manner in which these myths, and American mythology in general, promote the core values of everyday life under capitalism: rugged individualism, the unfettered right to accumulate wealth, the superior moral character of free-enterprise democracy, and its abundant opportunities for every citizen. By the same token, that same mythology negates the corruption endemic to the capitalist social order, an order that also promotes inescapable class, racial, and gender inequalities which confine the majority of Americans to a life of constant economic struggle. A fresh critique of the foundations of American culture, American Mythologies will appeal to those with interests in sociology, social and cultural theory, and cultural and media studies.

Myths and Mythologies

Author : Jeppe Sinding Jensen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315475766
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Myths and Mythologies written by Jeppe Sinding Jensen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In all cultures and at all times, humans have told stories about where they came from, who they are and how they should live their lives. 'Myths and Mythologies' brings together the key classic and contemporary writings - philosophical, psychological, sociological, semiological and cognitivist - on myth. To the insider, myths contain truth, revelation and a 'history of ourselves'; to the outsider, a culture s myths can be seen as the product of foolish, infantile and wishful thinking. Myths tell us about specific cultures, about human creativity, and how narrative shapes and reflects understanding. The 'Reader' is an invaluable resource for students and scholars interested in the impact of narrative on human culture and the meaning of truth in religious language.

White Mythologies

Author : Robert J.C. Young
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134384548
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book White Mythologies written by Robert J.C. Young and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-07-31 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We must, many now argue, `get back' to history. but which one? History has always been a problematical concept in Western theory, particularly for Marxism. In the wake of postmodernism, its status has become ever less certain. Is it possible to write history that avoids the trap of Eurocentrism? Robert Young's investigation of 'the history of History', from Hegel and Marx to Althusser and Foucault, calls into question the Eurocentrism of traditional Marxist accounts of a single 'World History', in which, as he shows, the `Third World' appears as an unassimilable excess, surplus to the narrative of the West. Young goes on to consider recent questionings of the limits of Western knowledge. He argues that the efforts of Edward Said, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Homi Bhabha to formulate non-historicist ways of thinking and writing history are part of a larger project of a decolonisation of History and a deconstruction of 'the West'.

Queer Natures, Queer Mythologies

Author : Sam See
Publisher : Fordham University Press
ISBN 13 : 0823287009
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book Queer Natures, Queer Mythologies written by Sam See and published by Fordham University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queer Natures, Queer Mythologies collects in two parts the scholarly work—both published and unpublished—that Sam See had completed as of his death in 2013. In Part I, in a thorough reading of Darwin, See argues that nature is constantly and aimlessly variable, and that nature itself might be considered queer. In Part II, See proposes that, understood as queer in this way, nature might be made the foundational myth for the building of queer communities. With essays by Scott Herring, Heather Love, and Wendy Moffat.

Introduction to a Scientific System of Mythology

Author : Karl Otfried Müller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Introduction to a Scientific System of Mythology written by Karl Otfried Müller and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Asian Mythologies

Author : Yves Bonnefoy
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226064567
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (645 download)

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Download or read book Asian Mythologies written by Yves Bonnefoy and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1993-05-15 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These 130 articles Aisan mythologies and cover such topics as Buddhist and Hindu symbolic systems, myth in pre-Islamic Iran, Chinese cosmology and demons, and the Japanese conceptions of the afterlife and the "vital spirit". Also includes myths from Turkey, Korea, Tibet, and Mongolia. Illustrations.

Myth and Science

Author : Tito Vignoli
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Myth and Science written by Tito Vignoli and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Introduction to a Scientific System of Mythology

Author : C. O. Muller
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330289785
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (897 download)

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Download or read book Introduction to a Scientific System of Mythology written by C. O. Muller and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-13 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you're interested in learning more about Greek mythology and a new method of organizing your thoughts about mythos, then Introduction to a Scientific System of Mythology is an invaluable tool for analyzing mythology in any culture. Introduction to a Scientific System of Mythology begins by defining mythos and establishing the idea that myths are made up of two distinct concepts: the ideal and the real. Then the source of mythology is explored, asking two main questions: what do we know about mythology and how do we know it? The answer is that myths are passed down through generations, first through oral tradition, then through epic poetry, Alexandrian poets, lyric poets, logographers and historians. The chapter regarding the actual origin of mythos is intriguing, for as Muller points out, it is impossible to trace specific myths to particular people. If myths originated with more than one person or from a group, then how did this collective establishment of storytelling actually happen? Muller's answer, in part, is that there is a collective unconscious need to create heroes and stories that relate to life. Muller's analysis predates the formal establishment of psychology, but draws on the same concepts to describe mythology's role in Greek life. Having laid down a scientific method for analyzing mythos, Muller explains how to apply his reasoning to the great Greek heroes. Finally, he compares his own scientific method with the approaches taken by other scholars and philosophers, explaining the similarities and differences. This section is a helpful reference for anyone who studies mythology, philosophy, literature or other subjects. Introduction to a Scientific System of Mythology is well-translated from the original German and is a smooth read. Those interested in mythology should definitely read this book. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.