Science under siege : contesting the secular religion of scientism / Dick Houtman, Stef Aupers, Rudi Laermans, editors.
Houtman, Dick, editor.; Aupers, Stef, 1969- editor.; Laermans, Rudi, 1957- editor.
2021
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Title Science under siege : contesting the secular religion of scientism / Dick Houtman, Stef Aupers, Rudi Laermans, editors.
ISBN 9783030696498 (electronic bk.)
3030696499 (electronic bk.)
3030696480
9783030696481
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69649-8
Publication Details Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-030-69649-8 doi
Call Number B67
Dewey Decimal Classification 149
Summary Identifying scientism as religions secular counterpart, this collection studies contemporary contestations of the authority of science. These controversies suggest that what we are witnessing today is not an increase in the authority of science at the cost of religion, but a dual decline in the authorities of religion and science alike. This entails an erosion of the legitimacy of universally binding truth claims, be they religiously or scientifically informed. Approaching the issue from a cultural-sociological perspective and building on theories from the sociology of religion, the volume unearths the cultural mechanisms that account for the headwind faced by contemporary science. The empirical contributions highlight how the field of academic science has lost much of its former authority vis-a-vis competing social realms; how political and religious worldviews define particular research findings as favorites while dismissing others; and how much of todays distrust of science is directed against scientific institutions and academic scientists rather than against science per se. Dick Houtman is Senior Professor of Sociology of Culture and Religion at the Center for Sociological Research at the University of Leuven, Belgium, and Faculty Fellow at the Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University, USA. Stef Aupers is Senior Professor of Media Culture at the Institute for Media Studies at the University of Leuven, Belgium. Rudi Laermans is Senior Professor of Social Theory at the Center for Sociological Research at the University of Leuven, Belgium.
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Aupers, Stef, 1969- editor.
Laermans, Rudi, 1957- editor.
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9. A Science Confidence Gap: Education, Trust in Scientific Methods, and Trust in Scientific Institutions in the United States, 2014.

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