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THE SCIENCE AND RELIGION FORUM

Began at a meeting in Durham, England in 1975 ... Acknowledges that the issues at the interface of religion and science are complex ... Organises an annual conference on topics at the interface of religion and science ...

Promotes discussion between scientific understanding and religious thought ... Publishes Reviews in Science and Religion, a journal that commissions reviews of the latest work in the field of science and religion... Is open to people of any religion or none.

MEMBERSHIP
Click above for details about the benefits of membership of the Science and Religion Forum, membership fees, and concessions. Included is an application form.

REVIEWS IN SCIENCE AND RELIGION
Click above for information about the Science and Religion Forum's journal, including the CONTENTS PAGE and EDITORIALS from recent issues, and sample reviews of newly published books.

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2008 SCIENCE AND RELIGION FORUM CONFERENCE

Matter and Meaning

Thursday 4th September to Saturday 6th September 2008

at

Liverpool Hope University

The Conference will consider the nature of matter, and whether our increasing scientific knowledge has significance for religious belief. The main speakers will be:

Professor Colin Russell
Professor Emeritus, Department of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, Open University

Professor Ruth Gregory
Professor in the Departments of Mathematical Sciences and Physics, Durham

Professor Peter Harrison
Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion, Oxford

Professor John Harding
Professor of Materials Simulation, Sheffield

Professor Niels Gregersen
Professor of Systematic Theology, Copenhagen

Rev Dr Michael Fuller
Ministry Development Officer, Theological Institute of the Scottish Episcopal Church, Edinburgh

Rt Rev Dr James Jones
Anglican Bishop of Liverpool (conference dinner speaker)

Conference details: Click here

Booking form: Click here

Go to our NEXT CONFERENCE page for further details.

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RECENT PUBLICATIONS BY FORUM MEMBERS

Click on the title for details. (Normally this will be via an external link to the book on the publisher's website or through an on-line bookshop.)

R.J.Berry (ed.) , When Enough Is Enough (Apollos, 2007); Environmental Stewardship (T&T Clark, late 2006)

David L. Gosling , Science and the Indian Tradition: when Einstein met Tagore (Routledge, 2007)

Malcolm Jeeves (ed.) , Human Nature (Royal Society of Edinburgh, 2006) – with an essay by R.J. Berry

John Polkinghorne , One World: the interaction of science and theology (republished by Templeton Foundation Press with a new preface, 2007)

Michael Poole , Exploring Science and Belief (Hendrickson, 2007)

Anne Runehov , Sacred or Neural: the potential of neuroscience to explain religious experience (Vandenhoek and Rupprecht, 2007). (This thesis won the ESSSAT Prize.)

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NEWS FROM THE SCIENCE AND RELIGION FORUM

TRIBUTES to Revd Canon Dr Arthur Peacocke MBE (from Reviews in Science and Religion Issue 49, May 2007).
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OTHER INFORMATION

ORIGINS
A brief description of how the Science and Religion Forum originated and how it has subsequently developed.

PAST CONFERENCES
A list of past Science and Religion Forum conferences, from which you will be able to gauge the variety of topics covered at our meetings.

ARTICLES
A selection of articles concerning science and religion, written by members of the Science and Religion Forum. These serve to provide an indication of the type and level of discussion typical of the Forum's activities.

LOGO
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CONTACTS
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LINKS
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OTHER CONFERENCES AND EVENTS
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The Darwin Correspondence Project will award a prize of £1000 for the best student essay on a specific topic in the field of science and religion. The prize essay will be published on the Darwin Correspondence Project's website. Funding for the award has been provided by the John Templeton Foundation. Students from any discipline and at any stage of education may enter. The essay should use materials from the Darwin correspondence, but need not be based exclusively on such materials. Essays that engage closely with the letters, and that connect the nineteenth-century debates about science and religion with current debates and concerns, are encouraged. Students are advised to use the Darwin and religion section of the website, which contains lists of correspondence on particular subjects, other historical materials, and modern commentaries. Students can also search the online database for other relevant letters.

Submission details The essay must be written in English and must be between 4000 and 8000 words long. Essays should be submitted via email to Dr Paul White (psw24@cam.ac.uk) as an attachment in Word, OpenOffice, RTF or plain-text format. The author's name should not appear on the essay, but should be provided on a separate title page, together with contact details, and the name of the institution and programme in which the author is a student.

The deadline for submissions is 1 June 2008 . The decision will be announced in July 2008. Any questions about the prize may be addressed to Dr Paul White (psw24@cam.ac.uk)

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