released 12/16/2022

This Feature is an extended cut of an interview with historian Peter Harrison originally presented on Volume 131. In this conversation, Harrison talks about the main themes presented in his 2015 book, The Territories of Science and Religion. In that book, he argued that “the compartmentalization of modern Western culture that gave rise to these distinct notions ‘science’ and ‘religion’ resulted not from a rational or dispassionate consideration of how to divide cultural life along natural fracture lines, but to a significant degree has been to do with political power — broadly conceived — and the accidents of history.”

58 minutes

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