Posted on 6 June 2014
The Nature of Religion, Science and Health, in partnership with the Centre for Global Health Histories and St Peter’s School, York will see Chris Collingwood, Canon at York Minister, Harvard University’s Erez Manela and Dr Tara Alberts from the University of York debate long-held myths, and explore why notions of nature, environmental improvement, human well-being and health can often be affected in dramatically different ways by oppositional ideologies.
Academics Peter Harrison, Ron Numbers and Janet Golden and will also join the panel, chaired by Ruth Gledhill, The Times’ Religious Correspondent.
For more than 100 years there has been a popular view that conflict has raged between the religious establishment and the scientific community. Popular myths that still abound include:
Debate around such myths will underpin the event, in addition to further discussions exploring whether the reformation caused changes in the ways the Bible was interpreted, how the natural sciences were presented, and the complex ways in which religion was entwined with the enlightenment.
Looking towards the future, the panel will explore questions such as ‘how have hopes for divine intervention during treatment and the search for solace in religion amongst grieving families influenced their engagement with science?’, ‘can contemporary medicine profitably accommodate religiosity in its pursuit of good health?’ and ‘how can we locate the role of religion within science and medicine in a modernising world?’.
The event will take place at St Peter’s School, York, from 5.45pm to 8.15pm on Wednesday 18 June. Tickets are free and available from events@stpetersyork.org.uk / tel: 01904 527300.
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