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The International Society for Science and Religion (ISSR) is pleased to share a discussion with the award-winning authors for the 2022 ISSR Book Prize for Science and Religion.

Funded by the Templeton World Charity Foundation, the ISSR Book Prize is intended to understand ‘religion’ broadly and to seek for excellence in both content and communication. We seek to reward books that make a major contribution to the field, especially if they have the potential to take the field into new directions. We expect that three books will be selected each year, with one suitable for a general audience (‘the public’), one for an academic audience, and one for a professional audience (e.g. ministers/pastors, or school teachers). Each year there are three financial prizes of £500 for the winning authors (each financial prize can be shared in the event of there being two co-authors) presented to the winning authors (originally at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion).

For more information about the Book Prize and to find out how to nominate books, please visit this link: https://www.issr.org.uk/projects/issr-annual-book-prize/

Each year we have awarded three prizes in distinct categories: Academic, General, and Professional.

ISSR is pleased to have awarded the following authors the 2022 ISSR Book Prize on Science and Religion:

In the academic category, Shoaib Ahmed Malik for Islam and Evolution: Al-Ghazali and the Modern Evolutionary Paradigm, 2021, from Routledge.
https://www.albalaghacademy.org/ustaad/dr-shoaib-ahmed-malik/
https://www.routledge.com/Islam-and-Evolution-Al-Ghazali-and-the-Modern-Evolutionary-Paradigm/Malik/p/book/9781032026572

In the general readership category, John Lardas Modern, for Neuromatic, or A Particular History of Religion and the Brain, 2021, from University of Chicago Press.
https://www.fandm.edu/john-modern
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/N/bo105080439.html#:~:text=%E2%80%9CNeuromatic%20is%20a%20fascinating%20exploration,the%20cave%20of%20the%20skull.%E2%80%9D


And in the category of professionals and educators, Calvin Mercer and Tracy Trothen for their book, Religion and the Technological Future: An Introduction to Biohacking, Artificial Intelligence and Transhumanism, 2021, from Palgrave Macmillan.
https://religionprogram.ecu.edu/calvin-mercer-phd/
https://www.queensu.ca/religion/people/faculty/tracy-j-trothen
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-62359-3

ISSR was founded for the promotion of education through interdisciplinary learning and research in the fields of science and religion, conducted in an international and multi-faith context. For more information about us or to become an Associate member, please visit our website here: https://www.issr.org.uk