Published by Kostas Tampakis:

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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The other Christians: Science and Orthodox Christianity

By Kostas Tampakis Science and Religion, as a field of study, is flourishing. This is an easy assessment to make, if one considers the number of conferences, articles, books and dedicated journals that operate within the broad boundaries of the field. A subtler sign of the field’s growth is to be found in the disciplines that Science and Religion scholars have brought into the field in recent years. As last year’s INSBS conference in Birmingham showed, and as the 2021 conference in Stellenbosch will no doubt verify, the core disciplines of history, philosophy and theology have been enriched by the inclusion of sociology, anthropology and psychology, among others. Even more importantly, to my mind at least, Science and Religion scholarship is at last moving away from a European and American, predominantly Christian focus, to include Asian, African and subaltern perspectives.

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