Critical Theories of Science and Religion

Undergraduate

This course is an introduction to new thinking about the relationship of science and religion in global modernities. This semester, we study how frameworks of secularization and enchantment affect our theoretical and lived approaches to matter, media, and meaning. In particular, we explore the Catholicism of key thinkers shaping the field of contemporary science and technology studies, including Donna Haraway, Bruno Latour, Marshall MacLuhan, and their many critics. Social science since Weber has abounded in models to think about the interplay of secular culture and Protestant spirituality. What tools might we need to think about the kind of world Catholic science has made? What is a world, and who gets to define it? HU M 9:25am-11:20am