ESSSAT is a scholarly, non-confessional organization, based in Europe, which aims to promote the study of relationships between the natural sciences and theological views. ESSSAT has members from almost every European country as well as members from other continents. They have different confessional backgrounds, and may include believers as well as non-believers and atheists.
Every two years, ESSSAT organizes an international conference, each time on a different venue in Europe. Two prizes for outstanding research are awarded on these conferences: the ESSSAT Student Prize and the ESSSAT Research Prize.
ESSSAT publishes three series: ''Issues in Science and Theology'' (IST), ''Studies in Science and Theology'' (SSTh), and ''ESSSAT-News'' (a quarterly newsletter).
The organization was founded in the mid-1980s. Its current president i
Dirk Evers who succeeded
Antje Jackelén
Antje Jackelén (; born 4 June 1955) is archbishop emerita and primate emerita (''prima inter pares'') of the Church of Sweden, the national church. On 15 October 2013, she was elected the 70th Archbishop of Uppsala and formally received through ...
, leading ESSSAT from 2008 to 2014. ESSSAT's president from 2002 to 2008 was Dutch theologian
Willem B. Drees.
See also
*
Institute on Religion in an Age of Science (A similar American organization)
* Zygon Center for Religion and Science (Chicago) (A similar American organization)
* Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences (Berkeley) (A similar American organization)
* Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science (a related journal)
* Theology and Science (a related journal)
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Issues in Science and Religion
''Issues in Science and Religion'' is a book by Ian Barbour. A biography provided by the John Templeton Foundation and published by PBS online states this book "has been credited with literally creating the contemporary field of science and reli ...
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