REDEEMING CULTURE - AMERICAN RELIGION IN AN AGE OF SCIENCE, 1925-1962- GILBERT,J

James Gilbert has provided fascinating and valuable historical sketche s of the interactions of science and religion in American culture in t his century, especially those taking place between 1945 and 1962. Yet, taken together, it is unclear what conclusion is to be drawn from the se interactions. Ambiguity about the variety of forms of the science-a nd-religion relationship and about the referent of the term religion m ake the task of apprehending a coherent pattern among these sketches v ery difficult.