Fellows - International Society for Science & Religion (ISSR)

Prof Daniel Langton

Professor of Jewish History
University of Manchester

United Kingdom

Biography

Daniel Langton has research and teaching interests in Jewish history, with particular expertise in Jewish-Christian relations and religion and science, specifically in Jewish historical engagement with evolutionary theory and materialistic philosophy. He is located in the department of Religions and Theology, where he is Head of the Department of and Co-director of the Centre for Jewish Studies (CJS).

Externally-funded research projects include Leverhulme Major Research Fellow 2013-15 (Darwin's Jews: Evolutionary Theory, Jewish Thought and Interfaith relations), an AHRC Leadership Fellow for 2016-17 (The Doubting Jew: Atheism, Jewish Thought and Interfaith Relations), and a visiting fellow at the Katz Center, University of Pennsylvania, 2017 (The Jew in the Natural World).

Honoraria Titles

Major Prizes

Religion, Philosophy & History Interests

Judaism

Website

http://www.manchester.ac.uk/research/daniel.r.langton/

Publications

Darwin in the Jewish Imagination: Jews' Engagement with Evolutionary Theory

Oxford University Press 2025
https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198967033.001.0001

Reform Judaism and Darwin: How Engaging with Evolutionary Theory shaped American Jewish Religion

De Gruyter 2019
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110664119/html?lang=en

Discourses of Doubt: The Place of Atheism, Scepticism and Infidelity in Nineteenth-Century North American Reform Jewish Thought

2018
Volume:88
Pages:203-253
https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/discourses-of-doubt-the-place-of-atheism-scepticism-and-infidelity-in-nineteenthcentury-north-american-reform-jewish-thought(94f96ec5-8886-40b3-b0e8-6775a8a5b375).html

Elijah Benamozegh and Evolutionary Theory: A Nineteenth Century Italian Kabbalist's Panentheistic Response to Darwin

2006
Volume:10:2
Pages:223-245
https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/elijah-benamozegh-and-evolutionary-theory-a-nineteenth-century-italian-kabbalists-panentheistic-response-to-darwin(52994296-863b-4100-8c5d-89c02fac5afc).html

Joseph Krauskopf’s Evolution and Judaism: One Reform Rabbi’s Response to Scepticism and Materialism in Nineteenth-century North America

2015
Volume:12
Pages:122-130
https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/joseph-krauskopfs-evolution-and-judaism-one-reform-rabbis-response-to-scepticism-and-materialism-in-nineteenthcentury-north-america(e7991c67-ead4-488c-a697-cb99d306c8d6).html

Jewish Evolutionary Perspectives on Judaism, Anti-Semitism, and Race Science in Late 19th Century England: A Comparative Study of Lucien Wolf and Joseph Jacobs

2014
Volume:46
Pages:37-73
https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/jewish-evolutionary-perspectives-on-judaism-antisemitism-and-race-science-in-late-19th-century-england-a-comparative-study-of-lucien-wolf-and-joseph-jacobs(80bd4a93-c3ab-4045-b2cf-c05477749

Isaac Mayer Wise, Cosmic Evolution, and the Problem of Evil

Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2014
Editors:Hickman
Pages:79-94
https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/isaac-mayer-wise-cosmic-evolution-and-the-problem-of-evil(3bef834e-99e8-4b0b-8b04-f1ac9bfe3161).html

Abraham Isaac Kook's Account of 'Creative Evolution': A Response to Modernity for the Sake of Zion

2013
Volume:10
Pages:1-11
https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/abraham-isaac-kooks-account-of-creative-evolution-a-response-to-modernity-for-the-sake-of-zion(7d1c01f6-d226-4a8f-b3df-4c56072feb14).html

Jewish religious thought, the Holocaust, and Darwinism: A comparison of Hans Jonas and Mordecai Kaplan

2013
Volume:13:2
Pages:311-348
https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/jewish-religious-thought-the-holocaust-and-darwinism-a-comparison-of-hans-jonas-and-mordecai-kaplan(fdfe8d5f-e640-4f87-b292-f0197fba754b).html

Judaism Section in Encyclopedia of Sciences and Religions

Springer 2013
Editors:with Lancaster, L. (ed.) & Samuelson, N.
https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/judaism-section-in-encyclopedia-of-sciences-and-religions(7448959f-74fb-47db-9da7-31435f016727).html

Progressive Judaism

2013
Editors:Runehov, A. (ed.) & Oviedo, L.
Pages:1858-1866
https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/progressive-judaism(fd36d599-8fee-4636-9216-fd237c9f6b93).html

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