Science & Orthodoxy around the World (SOW)

Mapping the dialog

Project SOW - Science & Orthodoxy around the World focuses on the dialog between science and religion in the Orthodox Christian world. More than 50 specialists from 15 countries participate from various academic fields such as Science, Philosophy, History, Theology and Education. It reaches out to all relevant scholars, researchers specializing in the study of Science & Religion throughout the world, as well as a wider audience with an interest in issues that arise from the relation of sciences with faith. SOW’s actions are presented through this web portal, three large international conferences with parallel workshops and proceedings volumes, two separate workshops, public lectures, one documentary and 45 peer-reviewed articles.

Open-access research

SOW aims at establishing a permanent platform of dialog on an international level between scientists and Orthodox thinkers, sparking a wider dialog, which, although existing, is not so apparent globally, and at bringing the Orthodox Christian world into the spotlight of Science & Religion studies throughout the world. SOW also aims at collecting, recording and presenting the views and positions that constitute today’s science-and-religion dialog in Greece, Russia, Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia and Georgia, as well as the United Kingdom, the United States of America, France and Australia through a special open-access database and a collection of personal interviews on digital media.

Data Space | The Project SOW research database

Project SOW has published a main part of its research, the database, or else Data Space, with the presentation and description of hundreds of works and links concerning the relationship between science and Orthodox Christianity.

The aim of Data Space is to collect, record and present the views and positions that constitute today’s science and religion dialog in Greece, Russia, Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia and Georgia, as well as the United Kingdom, the United States of America, France, Αustralia and Canada. The sources are organized in a way to present the main questions that are discussed today in the Orthodox world and the various attitudes concerning these questions.   

Data Space aims at becoming the main tool of reference for scholars wishing to carry on the research on the relations between Science and Orthodox Christianity in the 21st century. It also aims at making the ideas of Orthodox thinkers expressed in various languages largely known to the international community. The texts available can also be of great use to specialists or PhD students in the field of Theology or Philosophy of Science as well as people simply interested to learn more about the dialog between science and Orthodoxy. 

Data Space is searchable by keywords provided for each text in English. The basic entries of the database are Lemmas composed by the researchers of the project. Each Lemma is linked to other entries of the database providing additional information for its source, namely the specific work where it derives and its manifestation, while the authors is these sources are presented in biographic entries. The opac feature provides to the stakeholders the possibility of searching within the registered entities while each search can be filtered by diverse categories such as authors, keywords etc

The official trailer of the new documentary of project Science & Orthodoxy around the World of the Institute of Historical Research, National Hellenic Research Foundation. A journey into Artificial Intelligence and its understanding by the Orthodox Christians. A film by Nicole Alexandropoulos. Production: Libellula Productions. 2023 Το επίσημο τρέιλερ του νέου ντοκιμαντέρ του προγράμματος Επιστήμη & Ορθοδοξία ανά τον κόσμο του Ινστιτούτου Ιστορικών Ερευνών του Εθνικού Ιδρύματος Ερευνών. Ένα ταξίδι στην Τεχνητή Νοημοσύνη και την κατανόησή της από τους Ορθόδοξους Χριστιανούς. Σκηνοθεσία: Νικόλ Αλεξανδροπούλου. Παραγωγή: Libellula Productions. 2023 This film was made possible through the support of a grant from the Templeton World Charity Foundation, Inc. The opinions expressed in this publication are those of the producers and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Templeton World Charity Foundation, Inc.