ABSTRACT
The chapter attempts to problematize ‘science and religion’ as a field of investigation. Parenthetically speaking, the conjunction of the two terms does not merely signify, what some might consider, an antithetical or agonistic relationship, but constitute a field of academic study as much as a social movement. If the relationship between the two terms has historically evolved over the centuries, it is imperative to historicize how the subject is to be studied in the South Asian context. The issues involved are briefly discussed in the first part of the chapter. The latter part of the chapter historically situates the changing nature of the dyad science – religion from a metatheoretic perspective. The chapter concludes with some methodological suggestions that could prove worthwhile for studying ‘science and religion’ as a movement in India.
