Program Unit
In-person November Annual Meeting 2025
Science, Technology, and Religion Unit
Call for Proposals
The Science, Technology and Religion Unit is soliciting proposals on the following topics:
- Space exploration, space programs, and religion.
- For the centennial of the 1925 Scopes Trial: the relevance of the Scopes Trial to contemporary issues (education, secularism, eugenics, etc.).
- Political philosophy/political theology and science and religion, especially as they relate to law, power, policy, and the 2025 presidential theme of "Freedom."
- Public scholarship/science communication and the study of science and religion.
- Reproduction, reproductive healthcare, and reproductive technologies and religion.
- Engaged Buddhism and science.
- Religion and climate change.
- Hindu nationalism and science.
- For a possible cosponsored session with the Religion in Europe Unit: religious considerations related to the development of AI in Europe.
- STR also welcomes other proposals for individual papers and panels that fall under the purview of science and religion, broadly understood.
Statement of Purpose
This Unit supports scholarship that explores the relationship of religion, theology, technology, and the natural sciences. We support research that attempts to bridge the gap between religious and scientific approaches to reality and encourage the development of constructive proposals that encourage engagement and dialogue with the sciences, along with a critical assessment of the meaning and impact of technologies for the human condition and the natural world.
| Chair | Dates | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Donovan Schaefer | doschaef@upenn.edu | - | View |
| Myrna Sheldon | sheldonm@ohio.edu | - | View |
Review Process: Participant names are visible to chairs but anonymous to steering committee members until after final acceptance/rejection