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Antireligion – Opposition to religion
Antitheism – Opposition to theism, and usually to religion
Boundary object – Sociology of information science
Boundary-work – Study of boundaries between disciplines
Continuity thesis – Hypothesis regarding European intellectual history
Faith and rationality – Two approaches that exist in varying degrees of conflict or compatibility
Fideism – Epistemological theory that faith is independent of reason
Flat Earth – Archaic conception of Earth's shape
Non-overlapping magisteria – Concept created by Stephen Jay Gould
Relationship between religion and science
Religious intolerance – Intolerance of another's religious beliefs or practices
Trading zones (metaphor) – Metaphor applied to collaborations in science

== References ==

== Further reading ==
Barbour, Ian G. When Science Meets Religion. HarperSanFrancisco, 2000.
Brooke, John H., Margaret Osler, and Jitse M. van der Meer, (editors). "Science in Theistic Contexts: Cognitive Dimensions," Osiris, 2nd ser., vol. 16 (2001), ISBN 0-226-07565-6
Mahner, M., Bunge, M. Is religious education compatible with science education?. Sci Educ 5, 101–123 (1996)
Ferngren, Gary (editor).  Science & Religion: A Historical Introduction.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.  ISBN 0-8018-7038-0
Jones, Richard H., For the Glory of God: The Role of Christianity in the Rise and Development of Modern Science. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 2011. ISBN 978-0-7618-5566-8
Lindberg, David C. and Ronald L. Numbers, eds., God & Nature: Historical Essays on the Encounter Between Christianity and Science. University of California Press, 1986.
Lindberg and Numbers, "Beyond War and Peace: A Reappraisal of the Encounter between Christianity and Science," Church History 55 (1986): 338–354; reprinted with minor editorial correction and revision in Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith 39 (1987):140-49. (Can be found online here)
Merton, Robert K.  Science, Technology, and Society in Seventeenth Century England.  Osiris 4 (1938): 360–632.  Reprinted New York: Harper & Row, 1970.  (Advances the thesis that Puritanism contributed to the rise of science.)
Ungureanu, James C. Science, Religion, and the Protestant Tradition: Retracing the Origins of Conflict. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019. ISBN 0822945819
Westfall, Richard S. Science and Religion in Seventeenth-Century England.  New Haven: Yale Univ. Pr. 1958.  Reprinted Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Pr., 1973.  ISBN 0822945819

== External links ==

A Reappraisal of the Encounter between Christianity and Science
The Mythical Conflict between Science and Religion by James Hannam