Prof Wesley Wildman
Professor of Philosophy, Theology, and Ethics
Boston University
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Biography
Wesley J. Wildman is Professor of Philosophy, Theology, and Ethics at Boston University and Research Scientist in the VA Health Care System, Boston. He is a philosopher of religion specializing in the scientific study of religion and his research and publications pursue a multidisciplinary, comparative approach to topics within the academic study of religion. His six-volume Religious Philosophy series is nearing completion: (1) Religious Philosophy as Multidisciplinary Comparative Inquiry: Envisioning a Future for the Philosophy of Religion (SUNY, 2010); (2) In Our Own Image: Anthropomorphism, Apophaticism, and Ultimacy (Oxford University Press, 2017); (3) Science and Ultimate Reality (in progress); (4) Science and Religious Anthropology (Ashgate, 2009); (5) Religious and Spiritual Experiences (Cambridge University Press, 2011); and (6) Effing the Ineffable: Existential Mumblings at the Limits of Language (State University of New York Press, 2017). He is co-founder and Executive Director of the Center for Mind and Culture, a research institute devoted to non-partisan scientific research into the mind-culture nexus, including religion (www.mindandculture.org), and founding co-editor of the Taylor & Francis journal Religion, Brain & Behavior. He is principal investigator on a variety of research initiatives, including the Modeling Religion Project, which applies tools from the world of computer modeling and simulation to the scientific study of religion. For further information, see www.WesleyWildman.com.
Honoraria Titles
Major Prizes
Religion, Philosophy & History Interests
Buddhism, Christianity-Catholicism, Christianity-Orthodoxy, Christianity-Protestantism, Confusianism, Ethics, History of Religion, History of Science, Indic Traditions, Indigenous Religions, Islam, Judaism, Naturalism, Philosophy of Mind
Science & Technology Interests
Anthropology, Biology, Biotechnology, Chemistry, Cosmology, Evolution, Genetics, Human Origins, Information Technology, Mathematics, Neuroscience, Physics, Psychology
Website
Publications
Religious and Spiritual Experiences
Cambridge University Press 2011
Religious Philosophy as Multidisciplinary Comparative Inquiry: Envisioning a Future for the Philosophy of Religion
SUNY 2010
Science and Religious Anthropology: A Spiritually Evocative Naturalist Interpretation of Human Life
Ashgate 2009
Encyclopedia of Science and Religion, 2 vols, (edited volume). Eds: Wentzel Van Huyssteen, Niels Gregersen, Nancy Howell, Wesley J. Wildman,
Macmillan Reference 2003
http://gale.cengage.com/servlet/ItemDetailServlet?region=9&imprint=000&cf=p&titleCode=M253&type=4&id=175665
Fidelity with Plausibility: Modest Christologies in the Twentieth Century,
University of New York Press 1998
http://www.sunypress.edu/details.asp?id=53771
Religion and Science: History, Method, Dialogue, (edited volume) Eds: W. Mark Richard, Wesley J. Wildman.
Routledge, 1996.
http://www.routledge.com/books/Religion-and-Science-isbn9780415916677
Science and World's Religions
Praeger 2012
Co-authors: Patrick McNamara
http://www.abc-clio.com/product.aspx?isbn=9780313387326
Origins & Destinies, a volume in the Science and the World’s Religions series
Praeger 2012
Editors:Patrick McNamara and Wesley J. Wildman
Persons & Groups, a volume in the Science and the World’s Religions series
Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger 2012
Editors:Patrick McNamara and Wesley J. Wildman
Religions & Controversies, a volume in the Science and the World’s Religions series
Praeger 2012
Editors:Edited by Patrick McNamara and Wesley J. Wildman
In Our Own Image: Anthropomorphism, Apophaticism, and Ultimacy
Oxford University Press Forthcoming, 2017
Effing the Ineffable: Existential Mumblings at the Limits of Language
State University of New York Press Forthcoming, 2017
