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The World of the Early Christians: A Complex Worldview   Doru Costache   The task of summarising how the early Christians represented reality is not easy. The writers of that era did not produce systematic discourses “On

The Joy of Religion: Exploring the Nature of Pleasure in Spiritual Life Ariel Glucklich Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2020   The Joy of Religion is a book that combines religious-historical description with evolutionary-psychological analysis in order

Science and Religion Per Se John L. Schellenberg   The term “religion” as it appears in the phrase “science and religion” is, for those who hear or use the phrase, quite commonly tied to particular examples of

Reimagining ISSR Muzaffar Iqbal The immediate impetus for this blog is the November 2021 post by Fraser Watts (“Cross-cultural Issues Regarding ‘Science and Religion’”), wherein he expresses reservations about calling ISSR a society for “science and religion”.

Cross-cultural Issues Regarding “Science and Religion”   If ISSR was starting from scratch, and if I was part of a discussion about what it should be called, I would have reservations about it being set up as

Human Flourishing Andrew Briggs and Michael J. Reiss   Can there be a bigger topic than human flourishing? Almost everyone cares about human flourishing, whether or not they use that term. Family roles, not only as spouse