Job Opportunity: Postdoctoral Researcher (Quantum Worldviews Project)

University of Oxford, Faculty of Theology and Religion   The Faculty of Theology and Religion is hiring a postdoctoral researcher for the Quantum Worldviews Project, to conduct research on the entanglements between quantum mechanics and religion in the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries. The appointee will work across several of the Project’s strands of research, focusing on historical and theological analysis of the emergence and evolution of quantum religion, but also contributing to social-scientific studies of contemporary quantum religion, and to constructive theological analysis of realist quantum interpretations. The role will also involve public engagement activities, especially in documentary and podcast work. It is expected that the appointee will author their own publications from research undertaken within the Project, contribute to some of the Project’s multi-authored outputs, attend and

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January 2025 Blog

Who is Working on Science and Religion? Changes in the Last 20 Years Fraser Watts The field of science and religion looks very different now from how it looked when ISSR was founded in 2002. For one thing, there is less interest in harmonising science and religion, or in defending religious convictions against scientific objections. Instead, there is increasing interest in the converging contributions of science and religion to challenges in human flourishing, such as ecology and the environmental crisis, about which ISSR is holding a conference in the summer. This shift is also flagged up in the title of this year’s Boyle Lecture, to be given by Antje Jackelén, “Science, Technology, Theology and Spirituality – A Necessary Partnership”?   Many of us have become more sceptical about

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