Social scientific study of Daoism: Relationships between religion and science in the interpretation of mysticism among Chinese Daoist monks and nuns

Summary: The aim of the project is to identify the various relationships between religion and science that are explicitly or implicitly present in the way Chinese Daoist monks and nuns describe and interpret their mystical experiences. With a mixed-methods design, the project will answer the following questions: What are the themes suggestive of a Daoist […]

The Neo-Scholastics and the Natural Sciences

Summary: This project will be the first project devoted to the study of key Neo-Scholastic authors and their approach to the natural sciences. Even if the Neo-Scholastic movement in the early twentieth century has been the object of some studies (Heynickx and Symons volume, 2018), its approach to the natural sciences has been seldom analysed. […]