Science and Religion in Western Literature

Michael Fuller is a Lecturer in Science and Religion at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

Introduction

Michael Fuller

1 Science and Religion Themes in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust: Sin and Evolution, Panpsychism, and the Dangers of ‘Single Vision’

Victoria Lorrimar

2 Weird Tales: The Shifting Role of Science and Religion in Literature’s Search for Truth

Alison Jack

3 ‘Heretical … Dangerous and Potentially Subversive’: The Problem of Science and Religion in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World

Mark Harris

4 Radical Plurality: Science and Religion in the Writings of Karel Čapek

Michael Fuller

5 The Spirit of Nature in Natural Philosophy and Literature from the Cambridge Platonists to Coleridge

Alison Milbank

6 The Wound of Knowledge: R. S. Thomas’ Cruciform Poetics of Science and Religion

Wilson C. K. Poon

7 Cosmic Consciousness: Henry James, William James, and the Society for Psychical Research

Mark Eaton

8 Marie Corelli’s Electric Creed: Science, Religion, and Popular Fiction at the end of the Nineteenth Century

David Jasper

9 Left Behind? Religion as a Vestige in ‘The Rapture of the Nerds’ and Other AI Singularity Literature

Beth Singler

10 Can Religion Save the Planet? Looking for Hope within the Eco-Religions of Climate Fiction

Jaime Wright

Afterword

Christopher Southgate