ABSTRACT
The history of science and religion has been a contentious subject. In addition to the usual scholarly disputes present in any academic area, this historical subject has been enmeshed in more general historiographical debates and influenced by the religious or antireligious beliefs of some historians. After considering some basic issues, this essay discusses several works written during the previous century and a half, while focusing on the last fifty years. Recent decades have seen a radical shift in point of view among historians of science.
