For an upcoming issue of the Radical History Review that focuses on religion and politics, we invite authors to submit short essays (12-18 pages, double-spaced) for a special section devoted to broad, interdisciplinary reflections on the relationship between science and religion. Currently, a series of debates rage in the U.S. and abroad regarding medical research and ethics and government intervention into issues ranging from the right to die to the teaching of evolution. What connects these various debates is the ways in which religion and science are often discursively structured as binary oppositions. We would like potential contributors to compose essays that emerge out of serious and grounded scholarly and intellectual work but that possess a more reflective tone and style and that comment on the current debates about the relationship between religion and science from a more self-reflexive critical perspective. Although these essays may be more reflective in style and need not necessarily conform to the traditional style and textual apparatus of the scholarly monographic article, we will assess their content based on the highest of intellectual standards and publish those essays which demonstrate rigor of thought, depth and breadth of analysis, and relevance to an audience if historically-minded radical scholars.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to the following:
-Historical relationships between religion, science, and society -The contemporary relationship between religion and scientific research (and funding)
-Debates over "intelligent design" and the teaching of evolution
-Theocracies, science and scientists
-Reproductive rights, science, and religion
-Explorations of the Merton thesis
-Cloning and genetic research
-The interaction between religious and scientific cosmologies

We invite historians of religion, medicine, theology and other areas to contribute. Reflecting the multidisciplinary scope of this planned section,and the entire RHR issue, we also welcome contributions from the fields of philosophy, ethics, literature, anthropology, sociology, and political science. Interested authors should send a one-page proposal to rhr@igc.org with "Religion and Science RHR 99" in the subject line of the e-mail message. Deadline for proposals is November 1, 2005. If your proposal is accepted for publication, final essays will be due February 15, 2006.

Abstract Deadline: November 1, 2005
Email: rhr@igc.org