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- Explores how information technology reveals and energises the conflict between science and religion
- Offers many new insights on the transformation of civilisation by information technology
- Clearly demonstrates numerous online social science research methodologies
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
Working from the premise that the relationship between science and religion is complex, the author demonstrates that while science has contradicted some specific religious beliefs, science itself may have been facilitated by beliefs formed many centuries ago. Science assists engineers in the development of powerful new technologies, and asserts that the universe is based on a set of fundamental principles that can be understood by humans through the assistance of mathematics.
The challenging ideas discussed will benefit readers through sharing a variety of Internet-based research methods and cultural discoveries. The book provides a balance betweenquantitative methods, illustrated by 24 tables of statistics, and qualitative methods, illustrated by 30 screenshots of computer-generated virtual worlds. Analysis interweaves with description, creating a sense of involvement in the experience of exploring online realities at the same time as radical insights are shared.
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Authors and Affiliations
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Arlington, USA
William Sims Bainbridge
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Dynamic Secularization
Book Subtitle: Information Technology and the Tension Between Religion and Science
Authors: William Sims Bainbridge
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56502-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-56501-9Published: 22 May 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85929-3Published: 08 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-56502-6Published: 11 May 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 268
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 25 illustrations in colour
Topics: Computers and Society, Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Media Sociology, Social Aspects of Religion