Concept

Institute on Religion in an Age of Science

Overview

The Institute on Religion in an Age of Science (IRAS) is a non-denominational society that promotes and facilitates the ongoing dialectic between religion and science. The Institute has held annual week-long conferences at Star Island in New Hampshire since 1954. The conference attracts about 250 members and non-members each year. The 1964 conference, for example, was attended by 215 conferees, with speeches by figures including Theodosius Dobzhansky.

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Philosophers who discussed Institute on Religion in an Age of Science

• Loyal Rue

Related ideas

• American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Non-denominational
• Ursula Goodenough
• Philip Hefner
• Karl E. Peters

Place in the tradition

Part of Religious naturalism.

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