Science and Religion in the 1920s: Religious Pamphlets by Major American Scientists

20 年代的科学与宗教：美国主要科学家的宗教小册子

• 批准号: 9818198
• 负责人: Edward Davis
• 金额: $ 5.37万
• 依托单位: Messiah College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-05-01 至 2001-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9818198&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Science; Religion; 1920s; Religious; Pamphlets

This project focuses on nine pamphlets about religion and science, published between 1922 and 1931 by the American Institute of Sacred Literature, a correspondence arm of the University of Chicago Divinity School. Shailer Mathews, Dean of the Divinity School and an important Protestant theologian, supervised the series and wrote one of the pamphlets himself. Another leading Protestant theologian, Harry Emerson Fosdick, wrote two pamphlets. The other six were written by prominent American scientists and engineers: Robert A. Millikan, Edwin Grant Conklin, Kirtley Mather, Edwin Frost, Michael Pupin, and Samuel Christian Schmucker. Although the pamphlets were underwritten by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and distributed very widely, they are virtually unknown to both historians of science and historians of religion. This project supports the preparation of a history of the pamphlets that analyzes their content and places them in the larger context of the history of religion and science in America.

这个项目的重点是关于宗教和科学的九本小册子，由美国神圣文学研究所在1922年至1931年间出版，该研究所是芝加哥大学神学院的一个通信分支。谢勒·马修斯是神学院院长，也是一位重要的新教神学家，他监督了这一系列活动，并亲自撰写了其中一本小册子。另一位著名的新教神学家哈里·爱默生·福斯迪克写了两本小册子。其他六本书是由著名的美国科学家和工程师撰写的：罗伯特·A·米利根、埃德温·格兰特·康克林、柯特利·马瑟、埃德温·弗罗斯特、迈克尔·普平和塞缪尔·克里斯蒂安·施莫克。尽管这些小册子是由小约翰·D·洛克菲勒(John D.Rockefeller，Jr.)赞助并广泛分发的，但科学史学家和宗教史学家几乎都不知道这些小册子。该项目支持编写小册子的历史，分析其内容，并将其置于美国宗教和科学史的更大背景下。