Seminar: Science and Religion - Details

Seminar: Science and Religion - Details

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Veranstaltungsname Seminar: Science and Religion
Semester WiSe 2026/27
Aktuelle Anzahl der Teilnehmenden 6
Heimateinrichtung Theologische Fakultät
Veranstaltungstyp Seminar in der Kategorie Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
Nächster Termin Dienstag, 03.11.26, 18:00 - 20:00 Uhr SemR E
Lehrsprache(n) Deutsch

Räume und Zeiten

SemR E

  • Dienstag, 18:00 - 20:00, Wöchentlich (ab dem 20.10.26)

Modulzuordnungen

Kommentar/Beschreibung

The challenges of modern sciences and science-based technology for traditional religious world-views and practices lead to transformations of religion on a global level. For some, religion and science seem to be in permanent conflict, in which religion must loose and science flourishes at the expense of religion; for others, they are more or less unrelated to each other; for still others, they should be integrated into one comprehensive ‘modern’ world-view. Depending on what we understand as science and religion and depending on how we understand the task of theological reflection in systematical and practical perspectives, different approaches towards the indicated processes of transformation are possible. In this seminar we first want to take a brief look at the development of modern science, before moving on to an overview over the field of religion and science as is has developed since the 1960s. We will then dive into particular issues like views on divine agency and creation, on cosmology and anthropology and epistemology. For this, we will also refer to perspectives from different religious traditions. Finally, we will reflect perspectives of practical theology. In the course of the seminar, we will decide which questions and traditions we will deal with in detail according to the interests of the participants.

Literature: H. De Cruz, "Religion and Science", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2022 Edition), Edward N. Zalta & Uri Nodelman (eds.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2022/entries/religion-science/; Ch. Southgate (Hg.), God, Humanity and the Cosmos. A Textbook in Science and Religion, 3. ed., 2011; P. Harrison, The Territories of Science and Religion, 2015.