In the ninth episode of season four, Dr Sarah Qidwai a historian of science at the University of York (UK) who researches science and Islam in the 19th century, and Dr Alexander Hall, an Assistant Professor at McMaster University in Canada who studies the history of biology and environmental science in popular media, discuss the importance of widening the scope of the history of science and religion.
(This episode was recorded in September 2024)
This podcast is 30 minutes and 52 seconds long.
The keywords associated with this episode are:
- global history
- history of science and religion
- science on popular media
- historiography
You can learn more about Sarah and Alex’s work on global histories of science and religion, in the 19th and 20th centuries respectively, in the two edited collections which they discuss in the episode: Bernard Lightman and Sarah Qidwai (Eds), Evolutionary Theories and Religious Traditions: National, Transnational, and Global Perspectives, 1800–1920 (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023) and Alexander Hall and Will Mason-Wilkes (Eds), Most Adaptable to Change: Evolution and Religion in Global Popular Media (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2024). For more on historiographic trends in the global history of science and religion, see: Sarah Qidwai (2024) “History of Science, Religion and the ‘Big Picture.’” BJHS Themes 9: 183–94; and Joel Barnes, Alexander Hall, Bernard Lightman, and Will Mason-Wilkes (2025). “Contending with Complexity: The challenges of global histories of evolution and religion”, in Stephen Jones and Fern Elsdon-Baker (Eds), International Perspectives on Science, Culture, and Belief: From Complexity to Globality (Routledge).
