January 2024 Blog
Twenty-Five Years of Science and Religion in Latin America Ignacio Silva Universidad Austral Latin America is an extremely large and diverse region of the world, in which different trends on academic work in science and religion exist. I have previously written on this topic back in 2015 (check my Zygon Journal article here), and much has changed since then. I was then at the mid-point of a seven-year journey leading, together with Andrew Pinsent, projects for Latin America from the Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion at the University of Oxford (funded by the John Templeton Foundation). At that point, though revealing a promising landscape, my initial diagnosis was that, for most of it, Latin American scholars working in science and religion were isolated both among themselves