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 (1993), has just released. You can see the book on the Amazon UK page here:
- Anindita N. Balslev’s new book, Cross Cultural Conversation: A New Way of Learning (2019) from Routledge has recently released. In it, various issues of the science and religions dialogue and the challenge of religious diversity are discussed. See this link for more details:
- A recent book from editors Fraser Watts and Victor Counted, The Psychology of Religion and Place: Emerging Perspectives (2019), examines the role of religious and spiritual experiences in people’s understanding of their environment. For more information, visit here:
- Celia E. Deane-Drummond’s recent book, Theological Ethics through a Multispecies Lens: The Evolution of Wisdom, Vol. I (2019), is the first in a three-volume work, with the second volume releasing in 2021. For information about this title please visit here:
Conferences:
- The Learning about Science and Religion (LASAR) Research Centre at Canterbury Christ Church University and the Oxford Argumentation in Religion and Science (OARS) project at the Department of Education at the University of Oxford would like to invite you to their conference. They are pleased to inform you that their call for papers deadline has been extended. They invite abstracts for papers and seminars that explore Big Questions in the context of education and the science-religion dialogue.
- Monday 22 June 2020 a Symposium day for shared discussion
- Tuesday 23 June 2020, Conference day with presentations of papers
- Location: University of Oxford, Department of Education
- Deadline for abstracts:20th March 2020 (extended)
- They ask that everyone (including those whose abstracts have been submitted and accepted) to register so they can ensure everything is consistent and runs as smoothly as possible.
More information, including submission details, are available in these two links:
- https://www.issr.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Big-Questions-LASAR-Oxford-2020-call-for-papers-final-04.02.20.pdf
- http://canterbury.ac.uk/ei-and-big-questions-conference-2020
Scholarships:
- Canterbury Christ Church University Graduate College welcomes applications for a Ph.D. scholarship in epistemic insight. This Ph.D. scholarship offers the opportunity to investigate epistemic insight and ways that students, teachers, and tutors in every phase of education can ask and explore different types of questions including big questions that bridge science, religion and the wider humanities (see epistemicinsight.com). To be eligible for consideration for a scholarship you must have applied for both a place on the Ph.D. programme as well as a scholarship by the scholarship application deadline of 31 March 2020. For more information please visit this link:
- https://www.canterbury.ac.uk/study-here/postgraduate-research/funding-for-research-degrees.aspx
- For inquires, please contact Professor Berry Billingsley (billingsley@canterbury.ac.uk), and for general inquiries: Dr. Lynn Revell (lynn.revell@canterbury.ac.uk) (Faculty Director of Research)
Other:
- Stan Rosenberg and SCIO are producing the premiere of a new play on Faraday in Oxford this month on 21 March called, Fire from Heaven. Entry is free but tickets are required. Issues of science and religion play a central role within the script. See here for the production’s poster:
All best,
Anthony Nairn
ISSR Administrator
