Published by Jaume Navarro:

Science, Religion, Nationalism and Atheism. A network of “spring schools”. (SCiReNA)

Summary: The main goal of this project is to organise three short “Spring Schools” on Science and Religion in Spain, Greece and Poland with the following aims in mind: (1) to test a short version of a syllabus on science and religion, formerly supported by the INSBS, in different geographical and cultural (and non-English speaking) settings; (2) to test the theses of a recent project and volume on ‘Science, Religion and Nationalism’, due to appear in Routledge in the coming months; (3) to explore local information for a new project on Science, Religion and Atheism. These three “spring schools” would last two to three days and take place between early April and mid-June 2024. The project has the following Outputs : OP1-3. Three workshop programs, one for each workshop, accompanied with photos of the events. OP4-6: Three participant pre- and post-survey results, one for each workshop OP7: A final report

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Science and Religion in Europe: A modular curriculum

Summary: The main aim of this project is to produce a modular syllabus on the history of Science-and-Religion which addresses what we regard as a largely understudied and lesser known cultural and geographical area, namely the non-Protestant and non-Angloamerican, but yet mainly Christian milieus in Europe and the Americas. The structure of the course will take into consideration the plurality of potential audiences, from summer schools to undergraduate and graduate students, and will, therefore, allow for a diversity of itineraries depending on the interests of those teaching and/or taking it. The course will challenge static or normative ideas of “science” and of “religion” and will, instead, and following the path-breaking work of Peter Harrison, consider local, temporally limited, and largely contingent approaches to the study and attitudes towards Nature and the Divine. It will also pay special attention not only to the diversity of theologies within the Christian world, but

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Engineers in Spanish “Science and Religion”. Historical origins of myths and contemporary uses

Summary: Contemporary public perceptions of science-and-religion are largely dependent on historical myths with global and local origins. While the still prevalent tropes of the conflict thesis were in the past argued from a universalist point of view (both across disciplines and geographies), recent scholarly work in the History of Science, the Sociology of Science and Religious Studies have challenged such universalism. And yet, much work needs to be done at the local and national levels. The particularities of the history of science and of religion in Spain, and the little study of science-and-religion in this particular country, make it an almost barren field for historical and sociological studies as compared to Britain, the US and Canada, for instance. Specifically, this project wants to explore the historiographical background of the conflict thesis in Spain and the way these historical origins project in contemporary Spanish public opinion. To achieve this goal, the

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Engineers communicating science, and the religion and science debates in fin-de-siècle Spain

By Jaume Navarro and Javier Sierra de la Torre In 1876, two Spanish versions of Draper’s History of the Conflict between Religion and Science appeared on the market. One, a translation from the French version, issued in weekly instalments, passed largely unnoticed. But the other, a direct translation from the original version, was highly publicized by liberal and republican politicians, philosophers, and academics as a tool for the promotion of academic freedom.[i] The context was the aftermath of the failed so-called “Democratic Period” (1868-1874), the restoration of the monarchy, and the purge of a number of university professors from their chairs for their previous support to the short-lived First Republic (1873-1874). This group of professors and intellectuals created a private institution, the Institución Libre de Enseñanza (The Free Teaching Institution), with the goal of transforming education and intellectual life in the country through, among others, the institution of a new

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