Sample Grants
Grant Title Award Date Grant Amount
 
Science and Religion: Historical and Contemporary Perpsectives

Professor Thomas Dixon
Department of History
Lancaster University (Lancaster  UK)

This project includes a July 2007 symposium and resultant book publication  marking the retirement of Oxford historian of science John Hedley Brooke.  The event includes contributions by historians, philosophers, theologians, and scientists.
 Octoboer 2006 $99,078
Darwin and Religion:  A Definitive Web Resource

Dr. Alison M. Pearn, Deputy Director
Darwin Correspondence Project
University Library (Cambridge  UK)

This grant supports the development of a section of the Darwin Correspondence Project website to focus on Darwin and religion.  It includes making available online all correspondence to and from Darwin that addresses religion as well as commissioned papers, images, a moderated discussion forum, and a theatrical production of Darwin's correspondence with Asa Gray.
December 2006 $1,128,149
Contextualizing Issues in Science and Religion

Donald A. Yerxa, Ph.D., Assistant Director
Editor, Historically Speaking
The Historical Society (Boston MA)

Support for eleven forums that explore the historical context of specific issues in science and religion. These forums, which are published in Historically Speaking: The Bulletin of the Historical Society, seek to correct specific past historical errors that have impeded progress in science and religion.
December 2004 $113,145
Galileo and the Church: Conference on the "Galileo Affair" and the Religion-Science Debate

Rev. Dr. Ernan McMullin, John Cardinal O'Hara Professor Emeritus of Philosophy
Department of Philosophy, Emeritus Faculty
University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame IN)

This grant supported an international conference held one decade after the report by the Galileo Commission to the Pontifical Academy. The program addressed the range of challenges that the "Galileo Affair" represents and the religion-science debate that it encompasses. The main presentations were published in 2005 by University of Notre Dame Press as The Church and Galileo.
 January 2002 $14,000
A Three Volume Set of Biographies on Eminent Lives in Twentieth-Century Science and Religion

Professor Nicolaas A. Rupke, Director
Institute for the History of Science
George August University (Goettingen Germany)

This grant supports an international collaborative effort to research and edit a three-volume series entitled Eminent Lives in Twentieth Century Science and Religion. The three volumes will explore the interactions of the religious beliefs of 36 scientists. The project also involves teaching initiatives and conferences.
 November 2001 $198,956
The Religious Views of the Great Physicists of the 20th Century

Professor Dr. Gebhard Löhr
Universität Greifswald (Greifswald Germany)

This grant supported research yielding several German-language papers and their English translations. The project focused on what great physicists of the 20th century (e.g., Einstein, Planck, Bohr, Heisenberg, Eddington, etc.) thought of the relationship between science and religion, as expressed by their writings and spoken words.
 July 2002 $45,000
Science and Religion, Chicago Style: Religious Pamphlets by Major American Scientists

Professor Edward B. Davis
Messiah College (Grantham PA)

This grant supported the research and writing of a book and popular articles and talks on a series of pamphlets, written between 1922 and 1931 by top American scientists, which were intended to reach educated Christians with a sophisticated approach to the natural sciences. Publications coming out of this research include the article "Science and Religious Fundamentalism in the 1920s: Religious pamphlets by leading scientists of the Scopes era provide insight into public debates about science and religion," published by American Scientist in the May/June 2005 issue.
 June 2001 $15,725
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