Discussion Forum on Religion and Science Discourse

LISA STENMARK: First, I just want to say hello to everyone.It's lovely to see this many people show up-either this early in the morning or this late at night, depending on where in the world you are.For today's roundtable, we have brought together several scholars who have been active in the science and religion discourse (SRD) and asked them to reflect on the contributions of indigenous and decolonial scholarship both for our respective disciplines and for the project of rethinking knowledge production in the Western Academy.Knowledge claims are central to religion and science, for good or ill.And so I think that means the SRD is uniquely situated to help think through the issue of knowledge claims, in part because truth claims are often grounded in either scientific or religious knowledge, and also because the concepts of science and religion have both been central to the project of colonial expansion and to reinforcing and justifying existing structures of power, including coloniality, racism, and sexism.Ultimately, in some ways, the very concepts of religion and science, and the boundary between them, need to be rethought and unpacked as part of the project of freeing up or addressing issues within, oh the production of knowledge.So, in order to begin that unpacking I asked these scholars to engage with recent decolonial and indigenous acts in order to see how these voices and ideas might change the way we think about religion and science discourse

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