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To Have Been a "Science": Theorizing Afro-Cuban Religious Knowledges through Critical Approaches to Science and Religion.

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Title: To Have Been a "Science": Theorizing Afro-Cuban Religious Knowledges through Critical Approaches to Science and Religion.
Authors: Pérez, Elizabeth (AUTHOR)
Source: Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science. Dec2025, Vol. 60 Issue 4, p1290-1298. 9p.
Subjects: Religious studies, Cultural studies, Dualism, Religious leaders, Religions, Verstehen, Animism
Abstract: The editors of Critical Approaches to Science and Religion, Myrna Perez Sheldon, Ahmed Ragab, and Terence Keel, have assembled an extraordinary group of contributors to produce a rich source of inspiration for future research. As they demonstrate, modern science has provided accounts of the "natural world" premised on transhistorical appeals to binary oppositions between science and religion (and between nature and culture) that are far from methodologically rigorous or politically disinterested. Critical Approaches deserves not only to be lauded but, perhaps more meaningfully, to be placed in conversation with compatibly vital contemporary scholarship. To explain my appreciation for its manifold interventions in religious studies, I would like to consider one discursive phenomenon found in Afro-Cuban religions that has yet to be examined—the practice of referring to deceased initiatory elders as "sciences"—and analyze it through the prism furnished by Critical Approaches. I conclude my remarks by stating why this volume should come to occupy an enduring place in our classrooms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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