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

该项目重点研究九本有关宗教和科学的小册子，这些小册子由美国宗教文学研究所（芝加哥大学神学院的函授机构）于 1922 年至 1931 年间出版。神学院院长、重要的新教神学家谢勒·马修斯 (Shailer Mathews) 监督了该系列，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。另外六篇由美国著名科学家和工程师撰写：罗伯特·米利根 (Robert A. Millikan)、埃德温·格兰特·康克林 (Edwin Grant Conklin)、柯特利·马瑟 (Kirtley Mather)、埃德温·弗罗斯特 (Edwin Frost)、迈克尔·普平 (Michael Pupin) 和塞缪尔·克里斯蒂安·施穆克 (Samuel Christian Schmucker)。尽管这些小册子由小约翰·D·洛克菲勒 (John D. Rockefeller, Jr.) 承写，并且分发得非常广泛，但科学史学家和宗教史学家实际上都不知道它们。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中。

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.