Warren S. Brown, neuropsychologist and co-author of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Religion, was recently interviewed by Terence Handley MacMath on the back page of the Church Times, an Anglican weekly newspaper published in London.
The biggest problem is that everything religiously interesting about humans is relegated to the soul
Click here to read the full interview.
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Recently, Tom Oord, a professor, author, and theologian from the Pacific Northwest, wrote an interesting blog post titled Verisimilitudinous Polkinghorne. In it Oord mentions the Polkinghorne Reader (Templeton Press), a publication in honor of John Polkinghorne’s eightieth birthday. The book will contain the best excerpts from more than thirty of Polkinghorne’s publications.
Look for the reader to hit shelves in the fall.
Read the complete blog post here.
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For a period of time, we’ve been experimenting with widgets. Recently, we released our first widget, The Big Question in Science and Religion, on our blog. Today, we’re pleased to announce we have another widget available!
With a simple click of a button, From Galileo to Gell-Mann by Marco Bersanelli and Mario Gargantini is now available to preview and browse.
To access the widgets, you can click the above links or click directly on the publication’s cover image below. Again we encourage everyone to copy and paste this wherever they desire. Post it on your blog, tweet it, attach it to emails, you decide!
Enjoy!
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Calling it “an introduction to the intersection of science and religion that is addressed to the thoughtful but nonspecialist reader,” CHOICE, the premier review magazine for academic libraries, examines several of the book’s strengths, noting how even-handed the author is in addressing several different world religions and how thorough she is in exploring new technologies. If you are reading this blog (or any blog, for that matter), chances are that you are fairly technology-savvy, which further means that you might find it quite interesting to think about how things like virtual environments, social networking, gentic engineering, or nanotechnology might carry positive and/or negative implications for religious experience.
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The Global Spiral recently published a very detailed review of Malcolm Jeeves and Warren S. Brown’s book, Neuroscience, Psychology, and Religion. The book is one of our newer releases in the Templeton Science and Religion series and the entire series has been getting some positive attention lately. From the review:
This book provides an excellent and very accessible overview of the state-of-the-question at the intersection of the cognitive sciences, psychology, and religion….Hence it is without hesitation that I recommend Neuroscience, Psychology, and Religion as a wonderful primer that clarifies the Illusions, Delusions, and Realities about Human Nature.
Click here for the full review.
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Neuroscience, Psychology, and Religion: Illusions, Delusions, and Realities about Human Nature by Malcolm Jeeves and Warren S. Brown was recently reviewed in the Volume 54, Issue 41 of PsycCRITIQUES.
Malcolm Jeeves and Warren Brown worked with the Templeton Science and Religion Series to write a book that concisely presents the basic neuroscientific and psychological theories regarding spiritual experiences and mind-brain distinctions. Overall they have accomplished their goal and written a relatively easy-to-understand, concise review on historical developments related to the manner in which spirituality has been conceptualized and understood over the ages, particularly with recent advancements in neuroradiological techniques.
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Science for Ministry is a new initiative of the John Templeton Foundation that “invites organizations to develop programs that will help ministers and the congregations they serve to move away from simplistic ‘solutions’ to the tensions between science and faith.”
Some of the institutions selected to participate were Asbury Theological Seminary, Fermi Project, Regent College, The Trinity Forum, and more.
According to the Princeton Theological Seminary website, J. Wentzel van Huyssteen, the James I. McCord Professor of Theology and Science at the Princeton Theological Seminary and Editor of the Templeton Science and Religion Series, will serve as codirector of the initiative at Princeton Theological Seminary.
“This initiative,” says van Huyssteen, “is intended to address a common experience of ministers and scientists of faith who struggle to develop a constructive dialogue around issues of theology and science in their ministry contexts. We are seeking to equip leaders in ministry with the knowledge and tools to confidently respond to these fundamental challenges, and to do so in ways that encourage a transformational impact on their church communities.”
Princeton Seminary’s program is designed for 144 participants from 72 Christian faith communities. Each community will send a scientist and a theologian to participate in a five-day introductory program that focuses on the two essential questions shared by theology and science: questions of origins and questions of human nature. Participants will then choose from a series of three-day and one-day events that focus on different facets of these questions, including topics such as evolution in both cosmology and biology, and cognitive science, neuroscience, and the human person. Each pair of scientist and theologian will return to their community equipped to further the dialogue between science and theology.
To view other participants and to review the project overview of each organization with their full proposal, click here.
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Have you ever heard of the Templeton Publishing Subsidy Program?
It is a grant program that we run here at Templeton Press, in which we provide financial assistance to other book publishers for new works that pursue research and new discoveries in the field of science and religion. It’s a great program that has given thousands of dollars to many worthy projects over the years. If your company is going to be publishing anything in this area in the near future, be sure to visit our website to learn more about how you can get funding for editorial development, translation, marketing, etc. There are no strings attached — it’s just another way that we are committing ourselves to our mission of spurring public dialogue on our key subject areas.
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We are thrilled to bring you another strong list of books in science and religion, science, and character development. This season’s list leads off with From Galileo to Gell-Mann by Marco Bersanelli and Mario Gargantini, a unique look into the personal reflections of some of the greatest scientists of all time. Equally exciting is the release of our fourth title in our Templeton Science and Religion Series, Horizons of Cosmology. Written by highly esteemed astrophysicist, Joseph Silk, the volume offers a well-rounded overview of new and controversial discoveries. We are also offering a title that explores one of the biggest questions in life, Life beyond Molecules and Genes, addresses the question, “What makes us alive?”
This is only a sample of what we are offering this season. To view our entire fall list, click here.
As always, we are happy to hear from our readers and we appreciate your support.
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The Templeton Science and Religion Series is edited by J. Wentzel van Huyssteen and Khalil Chamcham. The editors in the series have comissioned scientists in a wide range of fields to distill their experience and knowledge into brief tours of their respective specialties. Books in the series feature topics central to the science and religion dialogue and are written by scholars known to be the foremost authorities in their field.
Horizons of Cosmology: Exploring Worlds Seen and Unseen is the fourth title published in the Templeton Science and Religion Series. In this volume, highly esteemed astrophysicist Joseph Silk explores the vast mysteries and speculations of the field of cosmology in a way that balances an accessible style for the general reader and enough technical detail for advanced students and professionals.
If you want to plunge into the complex and intriguing issues that engage modern cosmologists, rather than skim the surface of easy description, take this journey with Joseph Silk, who will lead you on a tour through dark matter, dark energy, black holes, galaxy formation, and the inflating and accelerating universe.
—Donald Goldsmith, astronomy writer, and coauthor of the script and companion volume for the PBS television program Four Hundred Years of the Telescope
Other titles in the series that are available now include:
Later volumes will cover anthropology, astronomy, ecology, genetics, mathematics, and more.
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