May 2024 Blog Post

Science and Religion from the Ground Up   What did fourteen-year old physician’s daughter Ellen Parry think about science and religion as Queen Victoria came to the throne in 1837?  What was she reading in her comfortable family home on the outskirts of Bath that helped her and others of her generation to navigate the latest scientific findings and contemplate their significance in relation to the feelings and concerns of everyday Christianity?  And why might we care?     So often, our histories of science and religion have been written from the perspectives of religious or scientific specialists – often male, often wealthy, often white. My new book Reading the Book of Nature: How Eight Best Sellers Reconnected Christianity and the Sciences on the Eve of the Victorian Age