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Is religion antithetical to science? Comment.

  • UPSC 2013
  • Religion and Society

To call religion antithetical to science is to say the two are opposed by nature, so that one must lose ground as the other gains. Positivist sociology said yes. Most later sociology of religion says the opposition is contingent: it arises in particular claims and contexts, not from the essence of either.

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  • The case against antithesis
  • The Indian test: superstition, not faith
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