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The last 10 years have been lively times for the discussion of science and religion. In 1994, Paul Gross and Norman Levitt published Higher Superstition, attacking environmentalism, feminism, and every form of the social study of science and touching off a bitter—at times vicious—debate that came to be known as the Science Wars. Also in 1994, the Sir John Templeton Foundation began offering substantial monetary awards for offering new classes in science and religion. The Science and Religion Course Program transformed what had been a small-scale, fragmented discussion over the relationship of religion and the natural sciences into a large international debate, which became known as the Science- Religion Dialogue. What was surprising about both debates was the absence of sociologists of religion.

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  1. University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, S4S 0A2

    William A. Stahl

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  1. Department of Sociology, University of Houston, 496 Philip G. Hoffman Hall, Houston, TX, 77204-3012

    Helen Rose Ebaugh

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Stahl, W.A. (2006). Technology. In: Ebaugh, H.R. (eds) Handbook of Religion and Social Institutions. Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-23789-5_16

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