Science And Religion Research Articles

(Not) Getting Religion: Has Political Science Lost Sight of Islam?

AbstractIn this analysis, we expand the debate on the place of religion in political science by using the predictions of Wald and Wilcox as our starting point. Following in their footsteps, we askhowpolitical scientists have studied Islam since 2002 and identify the studies on Islam and Muslims at the flagship conference of the discipline, the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association. We evaluate not only the quantity but also the approaches employed by these studies. In order to gauge the balancing of roles (or lack thereof) between the discipline and area studies, we also take a closer look at the Middle East Studies Association, the largest association focused on the Middle East, North Africa and the Islamic world and its annual meetings during the same period. Our findings suggest that, unless carefully addressed, the prevailing patterns are likely to result in a crippling knowledge gap among political scientists.

Science and religion: understanding the issues

CHAPTER 1: LEARNING FROM THE PAST. CHAPTER 2: HOW WE KNOW WHAT WE KNOW. PART TWO: COSMOLOGY. CHAPTER 3: EXPLANATIONS OF THE COSMOS. CHAPTER 4: CREATION MYTHS. . CHAPTER 5: CURRENT UNDERSTANDINGS OF THE UNIVERSE. CHAPTER 6: ESCHATOLOGY. PART THREE: EVOLUTION. CHAPTER 7: DARWIN CHANGES EVERYTHING. CHAPTER 8: SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATIONS OF THE ORIGINS OF LIFE. . CHAPTER 9: EVIDENCE FOR EVOLUTION. CHAPTER 10: EVOLUTION AND DESIGN. CHAPTER 11: HUMAN EVOLUTION. PART FOUR: ETHICS IN A SCIENTIFIC AGE. CHAPTER 12: WHAT IT MEANS TO BE HUMAN. . CHAPTER 13: GENDER ISSUES. CHAPTER 14: THE PROMISE OF BIOTECHNOLOGY. CHAPTER 15: THE MEDICINE OF TOMORROW. CHAPTER 16: STEWARDSHIP AND THE ENVIRONMENT. . CHAPTER 17: COMMON THREADS AND ULTIMATE TRUTHS

Science and religion are wise to talk

Science and religion are wise to talk

God, Humanity and the Cosmos: A Companion to the Science-Religion Debate. Edited by Christopher Southgate

God, Humanity and the Cosmos: A Companion to the Science-Religion Debate. Edited by Christopher Southgate

Understanding Religion and Science: Introducing the Debate

(2011). Understanding Religion and Science: Introducing the Debate. Ars Disputandi: Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 61-62.

Sanity about Science and Religion

Sanity about Science and Religion

Values and Value in Folklore (AFS Presidential Plenary Address, 2007)

The key elements that define our field-sound theory grounded in the distinctive expressive practices of diverse communities, an antimodern and persistently relevant moral stance, and a wealth of actionable knowledge-make folklore especially valuable to policy leaders who every day must engage challenges defined by culture, religion, ethnicity, ceremony, and traditional practice in science, medicine, welfare, labor, diplomacy, and trade.

The complexity of the relationship between science and religion

The complexity of the relationship between science and religion

Science and religion in dialogue

Sprawozdanie z kursu letniego Science and Religion in Dialogue , The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, Uniwersytet Cambridge, 17-23 lipca 2011.

How the Science Versus Religion Debate Has Missed the Point of Genesis 1 and 2: Jacques Ellul (1912-1994)

From a social and historical perspective, the conflict between science and religion regarding the opening chapters of Genesis in the Jewish and Christian Bibles may have more to do with uncritically reading these texts through our “cultural glasses” than with what these texts actually say. Within the context of his work, Jacques Ellul read these texts as having nothing to do with creation or evolution, but instead with the relations between God, his people, and the land. It includes a polemic against morality and religion as fundamental threats to these relations. This is an excerpt of a larger study of the first three chapters of Genesis, as well as other portions of the Jewish and Christian Bibles.

Book Review: Myths about Science and Religion: Galileo Goes to Jail and other Myths about Science and Religion

Book Review: Myths about Science and Religion: Galileo Goes to Jail and other Myths about Science and Religion

A Word about … Faith and Science

A Word about … Faith and Science

Challenging the By-Product Theory of Religion in the Cognitive Science of Religion

The by-product theory of religion in the cognitive science of religion is problematic on both scientific and philosophical grounds. The by-product theory of religion argues that the explanation for religious beliefs can be reduced to a by-product of the unconscious processes of evolutionary cognitive adaptations. At the scientific level, the concept of emergence describes processes related to religious beliefs that are not causally reducible to cognitive adaptations. At the philosophical level, the by-product theory is often associated with certain metaphysical assumptions about the non-existence of supernatural beings, which is not warranted based on the empirical evidence alone. In general, evidence from the cognitive science of religion does not necessitate the elimination of theological explanations of religious beliefs and theology can act as a competing interpretative framework for the empirical findings at the levels of cognitive and evolutionary science.

Remembering William G. Pollard

William G. Pollard was among the first notable voices in the post-WWII science–religion dialogue. He was one of the relatively rare group of scholars of the science–religion dialogue who was both a scientist and an ordained Protestant minister. Although originally trained as a nuclear physicist, his books and publications were characterized by a remarkable command of other branches of science, making possible his impressive predictive insights. His work, so intimately informed by his heartfelt religiosity, can serve as a helpful reminder that theology must remain connected to the spirituality and religion from which it derived.

Ronald L. Numbers (ed): Galileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths about Science and Religion

Ronald L. Numbers (ed): Galileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths about Science and Religion

Science and Spirituality

Science and Spirituality

Galileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths about Science and Religion edited by Ronald L. Numbers

Galileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths about Science and Religion edited by Ronald L. Numbers

Newman on the Tension between Religion and Science

Newman on the Tension between Religion and Science

Philosophy is the knowledge of things Divine and Human. Exploring the Divine Logos in the milieu of Greek Science during the 17th-19th centuries

The relationship between science and Christian religion has been the subject of numerous studies, which have tried to shed light on the links between these two significant components of western civilization. In the present paper, we examine this relationship in a particular context: the Greek-speaking lands during the so-called Neohellenic Enlightenment (1750-1821). We show that a certain biblical interpretation which was used in support of certain scientific arguments was also used, mutatis mutandis, against some innovative scientific theories. We point out that most Greek secular scholars of the time argued that science evinces Divine Providence, and conclude that the emergence of scientific thinking in the region and its ultimate, if somewhat selective, acceptance by ecclesiastical circles constituted a remarkable achievement.

At the Emergence of the Crossroads Between Science and Religion

At the Emergence of the Crossroads Between Science and Religion