Narrative, Religion and Science

Stephen (Duke University, North Carolina) Prickett

Cambridge University Press, 2002

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An increasing number of contemporary scientists, philosophers and theologians downplay their professional authority and describe their work as simply 'telling stories about the world'. Yet story telling is neither innocent nor empty-handed. Register, rhetoric and imagery are manipulative, and irony emerges as the natural mode of our modern fragmented culture.

ISBN-13
9780521009836
ISBN-10
0521009839
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2002
Publication date
2002-03-28
Pages
290
Dimensions
229x152x19
Weight
465