Religion and science have a reputation for conflict. Religious institutions have long viewed scientific observation and discovery as threats to their authority, and the scientific community has long ...

Magisteria: The Entangled Histories of Science and Religion; By Nicholas Spencer; Oneworld Publications; 480 pp., $32.00 It’s also largely, albeit not entirely, apocryphal. Far from being at each ...

A century ago today, America fixed its attention on a Dayton courthouse. Tennessee was prosecuting John T. Scopes for violating a 1925 law forbidding public schools and universities to teach the ...

For centuries there has been tension—in churches, the academies, and the public square—between science and religion. Each makes truth claims and addresses essential questions. Science looks at the ...

The study of the psychology of religion has become a domain of active research following the pioneering work of psychologist and philosopher William James, whose book The Varieties of Religious ...

Many people think that science is just another religion, no better than their own. Their reasoning is apparently something along these lines: “Beliefs about the unseen world are based entirely on ...

And her attendance of Pope Francis’ three-day climate change summit, along with governors of New York and California, should give pause to the science-minded among us. We, who too often mistake the ...

Jessica Hughes is currently holder of a British Academy/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowship. The history of how a new city of Pompeii was built in the 19th century is little known, but a new exhibit ...

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic showed the immediate need to address the inequality in vaccine coverage. Equitable access to vaccines has been far from ideal despite calls from ...

Do religion and science always have to be in conflict? Religion and science have had some famously messy fights, but do they always have to be in conflict? In this episode of Crash Course Religions, ...

Science and Religion Forum (ScARF) is devoted to exploring the apparent tensions between science and faith, seeking to develop a better understanding of both scripture and science in light of one ...