Christianity and Modern Culture. Charles Gray Shaw

Christianity and Popular Culture

Christianity: A Cause of Modern Science?

When we think of Christianity's role in the rise of science, what do we think of? How it hindered it, such as the conflict between Galileo (1564-1642) and the Inquisition in the seventeenth century? Or, perhaps, do we think of Thomas Huxley debating evolution with Bishop Wilberforce in the nineteenth century? What we need to do now is take a deep breath, and take a step out of today's overwhelm...

Shamanism, Christianity and Culture Change in Amazonia

Among many indigenous peoples of Amazonia, shamanism and Christianity co-exist as central cultural elements shaping the ways in which people interpret and interact with the world. Despite centuries of co-existence, the relationship between shamanism and Christianity has entered an especially dynamic era as many of Amazonia’s indigenous peoples abandon Catholicism for Evangelical and Sabbatarian...

Murray Jardine on Christianity and Modern Technological Society

Charles Foix--the first modern stroke neurologist.

Charles Foix was born in Salies-de-Bearn, a small village in the southern part of France, in 1882. He was the son of a physician from B6arn. Foix came to Paris to study medicine and spent his entire career within the hospital systems of Paris (Hotel-Dieu, Necker, Bicetre, Salpetriere). He was named hospital intern in 1906, and during his fourth year of training he won the Gold Medal Competition...