[SydPhil] Book Launch: Peter Harrison, Some New World, UNDA Sydney (Broadway Campus), May 30

[David Bronstein]

Book Launch for Some New World, by Professor Peter Harrison

The School of Philosophy & Theology and the Institute for Ethics & Society at the University of Notre Dame Australia are delighted to host a book launch for Some New World: Myths of Supernatural Belief in a Secular Age by UNDA Professorial Research Fellow Peter Harrison.

Published by Cambridge University Press, Some New World explores the modern problem of supernatural belief and the disjuncture between contemporary Western culture and medieval societies. In this masterful contribution to intellectual history, Peter Harrison overturns crucial misconceptions – ‘myths’ – about secular modernity, challenging common misunderstandings of the past even as he reinvigorates religious thinking in the present. https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/MPfTCANpgjCrn02W9iGCfgS?domain=cambridge.org

Speakers:

Peter Harrison is Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Notre Dame, Australia, and Emeritus Professor of History and Philosophy at the University of Queensland. From 2014 to 2019 he was an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow, and prior to this, the Idreos Professor of Science and Religion at the University of Oxford. He is the author of numerous books on the history of science and religion, including The Territories of Science and Narratives of Secularization.

Sarah Irving-Stonebraker is Associate Professor of History and Western Civilisation at the Australian Catholic University. She holds a PhD in History from the University of Cambridge and is the author of Natural Science and the Origins of the British Empire, along with many journal articles and book chapters on the history of Britain and the colonial world and the intersection of religion, science, and politics.

Date: May 30th 2024, 5:00pm
Location: Moorgate Room, School of Philosophy and Theology, University of Notre Dame Australia, 10 Grafton St, Chippendale

RSVP: David Bronstein, david.bronstein at nd.edu.au<mailto:david.bronstein at nd.edu.au>

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