Dear ISSR member,   What a time it has been these last (almost) two months. So much has happened, with effects that will likely last far beyond the current situation. I know universities around the globe are sending in research proposals related to these unprecedented times. While all this is going on, I hope that you and your family and friends are staying safe. The ISSR, as you know, is an international community, and no time like right now is more important for being strong together.   This month’s newsletter is a little shorter than usual, but I do hope you find something of interest. Please do share anything here with colleagues, students, whatever; the more people that know the better!   This month we have:   Starting

Dear all,   I hope you are all well during this globally isolated time.   This post is to let you know that the special issue of Archive for the Psychology of Religion, which is about the ISSR's Religion and Social Brain grant is now live. The issue is available here for your viewing and reading.   Please enjoy these articles, and do let me know if you have any questions or comments.   Take care,   Anthony K Nairn www.anthonynairn.com ISSR Administrator    

  Dear ISSR community,   This ‘leap-year’ newsletter brings to you the latest news from the science and religion community. Please make sure to contribute anything you think would benefit the community and I will be sure to include it in the next newsletter. Further, our blog runs on contributions from our members, so if you have a project, book, idea, or anything you would like to share in a longer format, please consider contributing to our blog. As always, you can email me your newsletter or blog contributions to admin@issr.org.uk.   Please enjoy and do let me know if you need anything or have any questions.   Books: An updated and complete rewrite of Dave Hutchings and David Wilkinson’s earlier book God, the Big Bang and Stephen Hawking

Hello all,   We will be posting the newsletter to the website from now on, beginning with the February issue. Books: A new book by Rev. Samuel R. Saxena titled, Contemporary Issues in Science and Theology,  published by ISPCK & LTC in 2018 is now available on the following site: http://ispck.org.in/viewbook_info.php?pkid=1065. Conferences: A conference call for papers has been issued for “Evolution, Original Sin and the Fall” being hosted in Saint Louise, USA.  The deadline for submission is 15 February. You can find more details on this conference here: https://philevents.org/event/show/79218   The Polish Society for the Study of Religions & Institute for the Study of Religions, Jagiellonian University in Kraków invites you to participate in The Sixth International Congress of Religious Studies. Belief – Imagination – Knowledge. New Paths of

The International Society for Science and Religion (ISSR) There will be an open conference of the ISSR on Religion, Evolution and Social Bonding 21st – 24th July 2019 Eynsham Hall, nr. Oxford, UK https://www.eynshamhall.com   Plenary speakers will include: Robin Dunbar, Celia Deane-Drummond, Emmanuelle Honoré, James W Jones, Richard Sosis.   The conference is linked to a major ISSR research project on Religion and the Social Brain, funded by the Templeton Religion Trust and will include presentations by the project team including: Miguel Farias, Léon Turner, Joseph Watts, Fraser Watts.   The conference is open to all evolutionary approaches to religion but we will focus particularly on: How religion gradually evolves and when it really becomes ‘religion’ The role of religion in human evolution more generally The particular

We are pleased to present the following link to ISSR Fellow Professor Michael Ruse's new entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Enjoy.   https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/creationism/   Professor Michael Ruse is Lucyle T. Werkmeister Professor and Director of HPS (History and Philosophy of Science) Program, Florida State University   His publications include:   The Problem of War: Darwinism, Christianity, and their Battle to Understand Human Conflict https://www.amazon.com/Problem-War-Darwinism-Christianity-Understand/dp/0190867574/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1530223672&sr=1-2&keywords=michael+ruse+war   Science, faith and the evidence for God https://www.thebigconversation.show/john-lennox-and-michael-ruse   A Meaning to Life (Philosophy in Action) https://www.amazon.com/Meaning-Life-Philosophy-Action/dp/0190933224/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1537036310&sr=1-1&keywords=a+meaning+to+life+ruse   On Purpose https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0691172463/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i1   The Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Ethics (Cambridge Handbooks in Philosophy) https://www.amazon.com/Cambridge-Handbook-Evolutionary-Ethics/dp/1107589606/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1495575495&sr=1-1&keywords=ruse+richards+ethics    

University of South Africa, Pretoria   Dear all, ISSR is delighted to announce that registration for the SASRF/ISSR Conference in Pretoria, South Africa, September 6-7 2018 is now open. The registration form and preliminary programme can be found by clicking on the following link: SASRF-ISSR Programme Sept 2018 For attendees coming from abroad, the registration fee can be paid by credit card during registration on the first day of the event. Please return all signed registration forms directly to Professor Wessel Bentley at bentlw1@unisa.ac.za or, to myself at admin@issr.org.uk More details about this event can be found on the following ISSR webpage: https://www.issr.org.uk/events/being-human-in-a-technological-age-sasrf-issr-conference-september-2018/            

Dear Colleagues,   ISSR would like to bring the following two Science and Religion conferences to your attention: 1. Orthodox Christianity and the Reassessment of Scientific Knowledge @ Science and Orthodoxy Around the World Athens, 9-10 February 2018 http://project-sow.org/conf2 2. Being religious, being scientific: the dynamics of science and religion in the laboratory” (Panel #30), @ The Annual Meeting from the Society for Social Studies of Science(4S) Sydney, 29 August – 1 September 2018. Papers are now being accepted for the event in Sydney. Details are as follows: Panel abstract: While popular imagination of the relation between science and religion continues to be dominated by either “conflict thesis” or “complementarity thesis”, emerging scholarship in the social studies of science has brought to light the many ways in which science