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Peter Harrison
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Peter Harrison was recently appointed to
the Andreas  Idreos
Professorship of Science and Religion and made a Fellow of Harris
Manchester College, Oxford University. He had previously been professor
of
history and philosophy at Bond University, Australia. Harrison
has
published extensively in the area of cultural and intellectual history,
with a
particular focus on the philosophical, scientific, and religious
thought
of the
sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. He is the author of Religion and
the
Religions in the English Enlightenment
(Cambridge University Press, 1990); The Bible, Protestantism, and
the Rise
of Natural Science (Cambridge
University Press, 1998); and most recently The Fall of Man and the
Foundations of Science
(Cambridge
University Press, 2007). He has published articles and essays in a
number of
journals, including The Journal of Religion, Church History, Isis, Journal of the History of Ideas, Science and Christian Belief,
and Historically Speaking. Harrison
studied science and arts at the University of Queensland and philosophy
and
religion at Yale University, completing his Ph.D. in
modern intellectual history at the University of Queensland. He
has been
a visiting fellow at Oxford, Yale, and Princeton. He is a founding
member of
the International Society for Science and Religion and is a Fellow of
the
Australian Academy of the Humanities. In 2003, he was awarded a
Centenary Medal
for “Service to Australian Society and the Humanities in the study of
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For more information, contact: Donald
Yerxa, yerxad@bu.edu
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