Exploring the intersection of anarchy with Christian beliefs, this book reveals how fundamental concepts about God, humanity, and divine interaction can be reinterpreted through an anarchist perspective. It offers insights on how these ideas can contribute to creating a more ethical and just society, encouraging readers to rethink traditional views and embrace a transformative approach to faith and social justice.
An Anthropological Study of an Australian Scientific Community
This book provides a fascinating study of a community of scientists at the prestigious Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Science in Melbourne, Australia. These scientists are mainly concerned with investigating the immune system, which enables us to cope with the many bacteria andviruses that invade our bodies. The Hall Institute scientists are part of a distinctive subculture, with its own myths and rites of passage, which can be investigated in much the same way as anthropologists investigate 'primitive' cultures. The volume shows how scientific programs and methods areshaped by cultural factors, including social, political, and economic constraints, and by the Institute's setting and the ethos of the new biology. The emphasis is on how science is actually done in concrete situations as distinct from what scientists say they do, and what philosophers andhistorians and sociologists of science theorize about what they do. Life Among the Scientists will be of great interest to scientists, students of the philosophy, history, and sociology of science, anthropologists and social scientists, and the general reader who wants to know what the scientificlife is really like.