The University of Calgary supports a number of courses on themes and aspects of the history and contemporary debate about the relationship of Science and Religion. The scheduling of courses can vary year-to-year, recent courses have included:
History of Magic, Science, and Religion
An historical study of the development of and relationships among three worldviews by which Europeans have sought to understand the universe and human nature. Starting from late antiquity, the course includes the following topics: early Christianity and the natural world, the development of witchcraft, Christian responses to Greek science and philosophy, Hermetic magic in the Renaissance, and the Trial of Galileo.
Science and Religion in the Seventeenth Century
The course examines the varieties of ways in which science and religion interacted during the seventeenth century in Europe. Broad questions considered include: the relationship between science and scripture; doctrines of creation and providence and how they relate to the study of nature; the limits of mechanization; and divine activity in the natural world.
Religious Studies: Science and Religion
The courses problematizes and nuanes the on-going mutual co-definition of Science and Religion, and the ways in which the discussion is used rhetorically in contemporary culture. It considers the discussion as it takes place in media, films, science fiction and popular texts, as well as the historical and critical contexts of the relationship.
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