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Sponsoring Organizations

Zygon's sponsoring organizations, which appoint its Joint Publication Board, are:

  • Institute on Religion in an Age of Science (IRAS)
    IRAS web site
    Founded in 1954, IRAS is an independent society of natural scientists, social scientists, philosophers, religion scholars, theologians, and others who seek to understand and reformulate the theory and practice of religion in the light of contemporary scientific knowledge. It is both an affiliate society of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the Council on the Study of Religion, a federation of learned societies in the field of religion.

  • Center for Advanced Study in Religion and Science (CASIRAS)
    Founded in 1972, CASIRAS is an independent society of scholars and scientists from various fields who pursue critical, interdisciplinary studies of possibilities for constructively relating religion and science. In affiliation with the Association of Chicago Theological Schools it offers instruction and research opportunities in the implications of science for religion to seminarians, graduate students, visiting scholars, and faculty.

Members of the Board:

Editor (ex officio)—PHILIP HEFNER.

Representatives of the Institute on Religion in an Age of Science—SOLOMON H. KATZ (cochair), KARL E. PETERS, and ROBERT C. SORENSEN.

Representatives of the Center for Advanced Study in Religion and Science—DON BROWNING (cochair), MICHAEL RUSE, and WILLIAM E. LESHER.

Members Emeritus—DONALD SZANTHO HARRINGTON†, GEORGE A. RIGGAN†, and MALCOLM R. SUTHERLAND JR.†

Editorial Board

Editors:

PHILIP HEFNER, Professor Emeritus of Systematic Theology, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago

KARL E. PETERS, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Religion, Rollins College
Founding Editor:
RALPH WENDELL BURHOE (1911-1997)
Executive Editor:
PEGGY BLOMENBERG
Associate Editors:
J. W. BOWKER, Religious Studies, Trinity College, Cambridge University

DON BROWNING, Professor of Religion and Personality, University of Chicago

SOLOMON H. KATZ, Professor of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania

A. R. PEACOCKE, Honorary Chaplain, Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford

ROBERT C. SORENSEN, Marketing/Management Counselor, Sorensen and Associates, Inc.
Book Review Council:
GREGORY R. PETERSON, Chair, South Dakota State University (Religious Studies)

JOHN R. ALBRIGHT, Purdue University Calumet (Physical Sciences)

ROBERT A. SEGAL, Lancaster University (Social Sciences)
Assistant Editor:
DEBRA HOSTETLER VAN DER MOLEN
Editorial Assistant:
DAVID MARK GLOVER
Editorial Advisory Board:
IAN G. BARBOUR, Bean Professor Emeritus of Science, Technology, and Society, Carleton College

CHARLES BIRCH, Professor of Biology, University of Sydney

FRANK T. BIRTEL, Mathematics, Professor of the University, Tulane University

ROBERT BRUNGS, Professor of Physics, Saint Louis University

ANNA CASE-WINTERS, Associate Professor of Theology, McCormick Theological Seminary

KENNETH C. CAUTHEN, Professor of Christian Theology, Colgate Rochester/Bexley Hall/Crozer

ERIC J. CHAISSON, Director, Wright Center for Science Education, Tufts University

JOHN B. COBB JR., Professor Emeritus, Claremont School of Theology and Claremont Graduate School

MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI, Davidson Professor, Claremont Graduate University

JOSE M. R. DELGADO, Director of Research, Centro de Estudios Neurobiológicos, Madrid

MARY LYNN DELL, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Faculty Fellow, Emory University

IRVEN DEVORE, Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University

LINDON J. EAVES, Distinguished Professor of Human Genetics, Medical College of Virginia, Virginia
Commonwealth University

JAMES W. FOWLER, Candler Professor of Theology and Human Development, Emory University

MARY GERHART, Professor of Religious Studies, Hobart and William Smith Colleges

THOMAS L. GILBERT, Senior Physicist, Argonne National Laboratory (Ret.)

ROBERT GLASSMAN, Professor of Psychology, Lake Forest College

URSULA GOODENOUGH, Professor of Biology, Washington University, St. Louis

WARD H. GOODENOUGH, Professor of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania

NIELS HENRIK GREGERSEN, Associate Professor, Department of Systematic Theology, University of Copenhagen

GARRETT HARDIN, Professor Emeritus of Human Ecology, University of California, Santa Barbara

NANCY HOUK, Research Scientist in Astronomy, University of Michigan

SARAH BLAFFER HRDY, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Davis

WILLIAM IRONS, Professor of Anthropology, Northwestern University

ERVIN LASZLO, Director, Regional/Interregional Program, UNITAR, Rome

PAUL D. MACLEAN, Senior Scientist, Laboratory of Brain Evolution and Behavior, National Institute of Mental Health

VIGGO MORTENSEN, Professor of Global Christianity, University of Aarhus

NANCEY C. MURPHY, Professor of Christian Philosophy, Fuller Theological Seminary

ANDREW B. NEWBERG, Division of Nuclear Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

WOLFHART PANNENBERG, Prof. Dr., D.D., DD., Department of Theology, University of Munich (Emeritus)

GEORGE EDGIN PUGH, President, Decision-Science Applications, Inc.

HOLMES ROLSTON, III, Professor of Philosophy, Colorado State University

MICHAEL RUSE, Lucyle T. Werkmeister Professor of Philosophy, Florida State University

ROBERT J. RUSSELL, Director, Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences, Berkeley

W. WIDICK SCHROEDER, Professor Emeritus of Religion and Society, Chicago Theological Seminary

KEVIN J. SHARPE, Professor of Religious Studies, The Union Institute

MARY EVELYN TUCKER, Professor of Religion, Bucknell University

EDWARD O. WILSON, Baird Professor of Science, Harvard University

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