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Peter Harrison

Prof. Peter Harrison FAHA

    Qualifications

    MA, DLitt (Oxford)

    MA (Yale)

    BSc, BA, PhD (UQ)

    Profile

    Peter Harrison is a Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Notre Dame, Australia, and Emeritus Professor of History and Philosophy at the University of Queensland. Before joining Notre Dame he was Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Queensland. From 2014–2019 he was an Australian Laureate Fellow, and prior to this, the Idreos Professor of Science and Religion and Director of the Ian Ramsey Centre at the University of Oxford.

    University of Notre Dame profile

    Science/Faith Interests

    Historical relationship between science and religion

    Professional Associations

    • Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities
    • Member International Society for Science and Religion
    • Member History of Science Society
    • Member American Academy of Religion

    Selected Publications

    • Some New World: Myths of Supernatural Belief in a Secular Age (Cambridge University Press, 2024)
    • After Science and Religion: Fresh Perspectives from Philosophy and Theology, edited with John Milbank (Cambridge University Press, 2022)
    • New Directions in Theology and Science: Beyond Dialogue, edited with Paul Tyson (Routledge, 2022)
    • Narratives of Secularization, ed. Peter Harrison (Routledge, 2017)
    • Replaying the Tape of Life: Evolution and Historical Explanation, Special Issue of Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, Part C, 58 (2016), edited with Ian Hesketh
    • The Territories of Science and Religion (University of Chicago Press, 2015), Chinese, Greek, and Portuguese translations.
    • Wrestling with Nature: From Omens to Science (University of Chicago Press, 2011), edited with Ronald Numbers and Michael Shank.
    • The Cambridge Companion to Science and Religion (Cambridge University Press, 2010). Portuguese and Spanish translations.
    • The Fall of Man and the Foundations of Science (Cambridge University Press, 2007), Greek translation
    • The Bible, Protestantism, and the Rise of Natural Science (Cambridge University Press, 1998)
    • ‘Religion’ and the Religions in the English Enlightenment (Cambridge University Press, 1990)