Center for the Study of Science and Religion
- Center for the Study of Science and Religion
The Center for the Study of Science and Religion (CSSR) "was founded in the summer of 1999 as a forum for the examination of issues that lie at the boundary of these two complementary ways of comprehending the world and our place in it. By examining the intersections that cross over the boundaries between one or another science and one or another religion, the CSSR hopes to stimulate dialogue and encourage understanding." It is a center inside The Earth Institute at Columbia University. The founder and director of CSSR is Robert Pollack (biologist), Ph.D., Professor of Biological Sciences, Adjunct Professor of Science and Religion at Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York, Adjunct Professor of Religion at Columbia University.
Questions currently being addressed by CSSR include:
* Development and equitable sharing of water resources between nations in the Jordan River Valley, with Upmanu Lall
* Long term women's health effects of human egg harvesting, with Wendy Chavkin
* American slavery and memory, with Patricia J. Williams
CSSR offers a selection of courses, varying in length and content, for undergraduates, graduate students, clergy, and professional students.
CSSR sponsors one major symposium about every two years, and [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cssr/calendar.html four or more guest lectures] each semester. CSSR symposia to date:
* [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cssr/mindandreality/index.html Mind and Reality] February 25 & 26, 2005
* [http://www.earth.columbia.edu/events/2004/love/video.html Love and its Obstacles] November 7, 2004
* [http://www.columbia.edu/itc/biology/pollack/cssr_1-28.ram Destructive Emotions: Neuroscience, Psychology and Buddhism] January 28, 2003
* [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cssr/archive/past_events/2001-2002/William%20James%20Colloquium.htm A Colloquium on the Centennial of William James's "The Varieties of Religious Experience"] March 24 & 25, 2002
CSSR and Columbia University Press oversee the publication of the [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/catalog/data/CSSR.HTM Columbia Series in Science and Religion]
References
[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cssr/overview.html CSSR overview]
External links
[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cssr Center for the Study of Science and Religion]
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