Historical Research on Science and Religion: The Conflict Thesis Revisited - Dr James Ungureanu

In this episode James and Will welcome Dr James Ungureanu,
Historian in Residence in the George L. Mosse Program in History
at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Honorary Research
Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities
(IASH) at the University of Queensland.


Dr Ungureanu discusses his recent book Science, Religion, and the
Protestant Tradition: Retracing the Origins of Conflict in which
he reinterprets the origins, development, and popularization of
the “conflict thesis,” the idea that science and religion are
fundamentally and irrevocably at odds. The book recasts the role
of two influential figures in the history of the ‘conflict
thesis’, John William Draper and Andrew Dixon-White, and
relocates the origins of the view of science and religion as
being in perennial and irreconcilable conflict in a specifically
liberal protestant tradition. In the episode, Dr Ungureanu also
tells us a bit about his historical method and describes his
dream library…