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Introduction

This thematic section explores the desirability of replication in historiography (and the humanities at large). In other words, it explores the potential value of doing historical research again, and doing so systematically. We employ lessons learned from replication studies and the replication crisis in other fields. Elsewhere, some of us have reflected more theoretically on replication in the humanities and historiography (Peels 2019; Peels and Bouter 2018a, 2018b, 2021; Peels, Bouter, and van Woudenberg 2019). Here, we put our feet in the mud by actually carrying out two replication studies and reflecting on what we can learn from them. For this purpose, we have chosen John Hedley Brooke’s seminal 1991 Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives as a case study.

This introduction is organized as follows: first, we briefly describe the replication crisis as it occurred—and is partially still ongoing—in the biomedical and social sciences. Second, we consider and argue for the possibility and desirability of replication in the humanities, particularly historiography. After that, we briefly clarify why we selected for replication John Hedley Brooke’s 1991 book Science and Religion, specifically its third chapter. We elucidate why we chose to do both a

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