2021 IRAS Conference on Naturalism-As Religion, within Religions, or without Religion?
The following IRAS conference taking place this summer may be of interest to our members, and includes ISSRNC scholar Carol Wayne White as one of the keynote speakers! More details below.
NATURALISM—AS RELIGION, WITHIN RELIGIONS, OR WITHOUT RELIGION?
66th conference – The Institute on Religion in an Age of Science (IRAS)
June 27 – July 3, 2021 | Star Island, NH
For more information, and to register, visit https://starisland.org/program/iras/
What are the consequences of science-inspired naturalism for religion? In this conference, we will explore and evaluate religious and non-religious options available to those who take science seriously. Briefly, these might be characterized as replacement, reform, and rejection.
Plenary speakers:
- Owen Flanagan (philosopher, The Boddhisattva’s Brain: Buddhism Naturalized)
- Ursula Goodenough (biologist, president of the Religious Naturalist Association, The Sacred Depths of Nature)
- Sarah Lane Ritchie (theologian, Divine Action and the Human Mind)
- James Ungureanu (historian; Science, Religion and the Protestant Tradition: Retracing the Origins of Conflict)
- Carol Wayne White (philosophy of religion, Black Lives and Sacred Humanity: Toward an African American Religious Naturalism)
- Janet Newton (chapel speaker)
Co-Chairs:
- Willem B. Drees (past-editor of Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science)
- Barbara Whittaker-Johns (Unitarian Universalist Minister)
