Science and Religion Approaches from Science and Technology Studies

This edited volume offers new and exciting perspectives on the social study of science and religion through current scholarship grounded in Science and Technology Studies (STS). The contributors explore how STS theories, methods, and concepts can be applied to the study of religion, as well as how to incorporate aspects of religion into STS. 

The purpose of the volume is to advance the social study of science and religion by fostering the already interdisciplinary nature of the field and to encourage engagement with the intersection between science and religion from a wide range of perspectives.

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Returning Religion to a ‘Scientific’ Notion of Society.- Chapter 3: Religion in STS: the case of Latour.- Chapter 4: The Deficit Model: Reframing Knowledge and Attitudes in Science & Religion.-Chapter 5: Reclaiming Normativity in Studies of Science and Religion: A Case for the ‘Sposdas’.- Chapter 6: Immersion: The Jewish Ritual Bath in the Protestant Waters of Religion and Science.- Chapter 7: Valuation work in mindfulness research: capturing traces of religion in modern science.- Chapter 8: Science communication and apocalyptic prophecy.- Chapter 9: Understanding Sacrifice in Environmentalism.- Chapter 10: STS as the Sociology of Science and Theology.- Chapter 11: Liberation science-ology: Indigenous and Postcolonial Frameworks for Science and Religion.

Zara Thokozani Kamwendo is a Research Associate at St. John’s College, Durham University.