Author

Peter Harrison

Professor, University of Queensland, Australia

Peter Harrison is director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Queensland, Australia. A former Idreos Professor of Science and Religion at the University of Oxford, he is the author of several books devoted to the historical relations between science and religion, including, most recently, “The Territories of Science and Religion” (University of Chicago Press, 2015).

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