Title:

Contextualizing Issues in Science and Religion

Principal Investigator:

Donald A. Yerxa, Ph.D., Assistant Director
Editor, Historically Speaking

Grantee:

The Historical Society (Boston MA)

Description:

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.

Historically Speaking web site:
http://www.bu.edu/historic/hs.html

Affiliated People:

Professor John Hedley Brooke, Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion Emeritus
Director, Ian Ramsey Centre
University of Oxford (Oxford UK)

Professor Eric Chaisson
Director, Wright Center for Science Education
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Tufts University (Medford MA)

Professor David Christian
Department of History
San Diego State University (San Diego CA)

Jonathan C.D. Clark, Hall Distinguished Professor of British History
Department of History
University of Kansas (Lawrence KS)

Professor Ricardo Duchesne
Department of Sociology
University of New Brunswick – Saint John (Saint John Canada)

Charles Gillispie, Dayton-Stockton Professor
Department of History
Princeton University (Princeton NJ)

Jack Goldstone, Virginia E. and John T. Hazel Jr. Professor
School of Public Policy
George Mason University (Fairfax VA)

Peter Harrison, Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion
Department of Theology
University of Oxford (Oxford UK)

Edward Larson, Herman E. Talmadge Chair of Law, Richard B. Russell Professor of American History
School of Law
University of Georgia (Athens GA)

David Lindberg, Hilldale Professor Emeritus
Department of History of Science
University of Wisconsin – Madison (Madison WI)

Professor David Livingstone
School of Geography
Queen's University - Belfast (Belfast UK)

Robert E. Lucas, John Dewey Distinguished Service Professor
Department of Economic
University of Chicago (Chicago IL)

Bruce Mazlish, Professor Emeritus
Department of History
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge MA)

William H. McNeill, Robert A. Milikan Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus
Department of History
University of Chicago (Chicago IL)

Professor John Mears
Department of History
Southern Methodist University (Dallas TX)

Professor Joel Mokyr
Department of Economics
Northwestern University (Evanston IL)

James Muldoon, Professor Emeritus
Rutgers University (Camden NJ)
Invited Research Scholar, John Carter Brown Library (Providence RI)

Ronald Numbers, Hilldale and William Coleman Professor
Chair, Department of the History of Medicine
University of Wisconsin - Madison (Madison WI)

Professor William Shea, Galileo Chair
Department of History of Science
University of Padua (Padua Italy)

Professor Aviezer Tucker
School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy
Queen's University – Belfast (Belfast UK)