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PAST CONFERENCES

Below you will find a complete list of conference themes back to 1954. Whenever possible, the Conference Book (also known as the "orange book") has been made available in PDF.  The Conference Book contains abstracts on all conference plenary sessions, as well as biographical information about presenters, and information on seminars and workshops presented during the conference.

Prior to 1991, there was no "orange book" as such. Wherever possible for the years prior to 1991, we have provided scanned images of original conference materials, such as the conference flyer from the Star Island Blue Book, discussion questions, conference reports, and speaker schedules.

2017 - The "Wicked Problem" of Climate Change:
           
What is it doing to us and for us?
           
Paul H. Carr, Champion
           
Emily E. Austin & Karl E. Peters, Co-Chairs
           Orange Book 2017.pdf


2016 - How Can We Know? 
           Co-creating Knowledge in Perilous Times
           Pat Bennet, Ruben Nelson & John Teske
           Orange Book 2016.pdf
 

2015 - Unsettling Science and Religion: Contributions &       
           Questions from Queer Studies
           Whitney Bauman & Lisa Stenmark
           Orange Book 2015.pdf

2014 - Science and Religion in a Globalizing World
           Whitney Bauman, Karl E. Peters
           Orange Book 2014.pdf

2013 - Scientific, Spiritual, and Moral Challenges in Solving 
           the World Food Crisis
           Sol Katz, Pat Bennett
           Orange Book 2013.pdf

2012 - Saving the Future
           Robert Bercaw, V.V. Raman
           Orange Book 2012.pdf

2011 - Doing Good, Doing Bad, Doing Nothing: Scientific and   
           Religious Perspectives on Human Behavior
           Karl Peters, Barbara Whittaker-Johns
           Orange Book 2011.pdf

2010 - The Energy Transition
           Norm Laurendeau, Larry Rasmussen
           Conference Book 2010.pdf  
           EnergyStatement.pdf

2009 - The Mythic Reality of the Autonomous Individual
           Ted Laurenson, John Teske  
           Conference Book 2009.pdf   

2008 - Emergence: Nature’s Mode of Creativity - The Human 
           Dimension
           Philip Clayton, Terrence Deacon, Ursula Goodenough
           Conference Book 2008.pdf

2006 - Emergence: Nature’s Mode of Creativity
           George Fisher, Ursula Goodenough
           Conference Book 2006.pdf

2005 - Varieties of Spiritual Transformation: Scientific &
           Religious Perspectives  
           Karl Peters, Andrew Newberg
           Conference Book 2005.pdf
           Conference Report 2005.html

2004 - Earth’s Waters in Crisis: A Scientific, Spiritual & Moral 
           Challenge
           Solomon Katz, George Fisher, Jeanie Graustein
           Conference Book 2004.pdf
           Conference Report 2004.html 

2003 - EcoMorality
           Ursula Goodenough, Brian Swimme, Mary Evelyn 
           Tucker
           Conference Book 2003.pdf
           Conference Report 2003.html

2002 - Is Nature Enough: The Search for Transcendence
           Michael Cavanaugh, Terrence Deacon
           Conference Book 2002.pdf
           Conference Report 2002.html

2001 - Human Meaning in a Technological Culture
           Willem B. Drees, Bruce Naylor
           Conference Book 2001.pdf
           Conference Report 2001.html

2000 - Nurturing Human Nature
           Sharon Stein McNamara, William Falla, Solomon Katz
           Conference Book 2000.pdf
           Conference Report 2000.html 

1999 - Sexuality & Human Nature: A Scientific, Religious &
           Moral Exploration 
           Ted Laurenson, Barbara Whittaker-Johns, Michael    
           Ruse
           Conference Book 1999.pdf
           Conference Report 1999.html

1998 - Interweaving Art, Science, and Spirituality
           Ursula Goodenough, Robert Schaible
           Conference Book 1998.pdf

1997 - The Evolution of Morality
           Karl Peters, Michael Ruse
           Conference Book 1997.pdf
           Conference Report 1997.html

1996 - The Epic of Evolution
           Ursula Goodenough, Loyal Rue
           Conference Book 1996.pdf
           Conference Report 1996.html

1995 - Life in the Universe
           Nancy Anschuetz,  Chris Corbally
           Conference Book 1995.pdf
           
 1994 - Knowledge Most Worth Having in the Decade of the 
           Brain
           Rodney Holmes, Barbara Whittaker-Johns
           Conference Book 1994.pdf
           Conference Report 1994.html

1993 - Charting Our Lives: Possibilities, Constraints & 
           Decisions
           Carol Rausch Albright, Philip Hefner
           Conference Book 1993.pdf
           Conference Report 1993 .html

1992 - Global Ecology and Human Destiny
           Nancy Anschuetz, Karl Peters
           Conference Book 1992.pdf

1991 - The God Question in an Age of Science
           Tom Gilbert, Ursula Goodenough
           Conference Book 1991.pdf 

1990 - Creativity, Nonconformity and Madness
           John Fryer, Elizabeth Lau
           Conference Book 1990.pdf 
1989 - Being Religious: Working at Self-Maintenance and Self-
           Transformation
           Ward Goodenough, Barbara Whittaker-Johns
           Conference Book 1989.pdf

1988 - Cosmology & the Meaning of Human Existence: 
           Options from Contemporary Physics
           Lawrence Fagg, Nancy Houk
           Conference Book 1988.pdf

1987 - Gender Bias: Its Reality and Effects in Religion & 
           Science
           Marjorie Davis, Philip Hefner
           Conference Book 1987.pdf

1986 - Free Will: Is It Possible and Is it Desirable?
           Karl Peters, Robert Sorensen
           Conference Book 1986.pdf

1985 - Can a Scientific Understanding of Religion Aid the 
           Process of World Peace?
           Ralph W. Burhoe, Solomon Katz
           Conference Book 1985.pdf

1984 - Recent Discoveries in Neurobiology: Do They Matter 
           for Religion, the Social Sciences & the Humanities?
           Victor Turner, Philip Hefner
           Conference Book 1984.pdf

1983 - What Is and What Makes a Person?
           John Bowker, Solomon Katz
           Conference Book 1983.pdf

1982 - Order and Disorder: A Study of Entropy & A Study of 
           Evil
           Sanborn C. Brown, David Breed
           Conference Book 1982.pdf

1981 - How Do We Know What is True? And Whom Should 
           We Believe?
           Jeannette Hopkins, Philip Hefner
           Conference Book 1981.pdf

1980 - Change, Aging and the Passage of Time
           John Fryer

1979 - New Evolutionary Bridges Between Science & Values
           William Falla, Solomon Katz

1978 - The Future of the Child: Religious & Scientific 
           Perspectives
           Daniel R. DeNicola, Karl Peters

1977 - Esthetics, Symbol and Truth in Science & Religion
           Eugene d'Aquili, Solomon Katz

1976 - Diversity or Uniformity: Strategies for Human Survival
           Philip Hefner

1975 - Genetics, Evolution and Ethics 
           Hudson Hoagland

1974 - Science, Religion and Social Change in the Light of New 
           Understandings of Man
           Karl H. Hertz

1973 - The Humanizing and Dehumanizing of Man
           George A. Riggan

1972 - Technology and the Human Future
           Kenneth Cauthen

1971 - Conflicts of Values and Sources of Power
           John Fryer

1970 - Ethics and Ecology
           Karl H. Hertz

1969 - Aggression: Its Biological, Psychological, & Social 
           Roots, & the Place of  Religion in Its Control
           Warren F. Busse

1968 - Computers and Religion
           Sanborn D. Brown, Ralph W. Burhoe

1967 - Relevance of Religious Concepts to Contemporary Life 
           & Thought
           Jerome Malino

1966 - Coping with Death
           Ward Goodenough, Edward G. Murray

1965 - How Can Man Know Right from Wrong?
           Malcolm Sutherland, Jr.

1964 - What is Religion?
           Erwin R. Goodenough

1963 - The Condition of Man in Society
           Joseph Barth, Sanborn C. Brown

1962 - The Purpose of Life
           Erwin R. Goodenough, Kirtley F. Mather

1961 - Science, Religion and the Human Potential
           Carl Bihldorff, Edwin P. Booth, Ralph W. Burhoe,
           Lawrence K. Frank, Deborah W. Greeley, Kirtley 
           Mather, Lyman Rutledge

1960 - Some Relations of the Psychological Sciences to 
           Religion
           Deborah W. Greeley, Ralph W. Burhoe, Walter H. Clark,
           Joseph R. Royce
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1959 - Religion and Science and the Responsible Society

1958 - What Is the Role of Religion in an Age of Science?

1957 - What is “Truth”?

1956 - What Are “Good” & “Evil”?

1955 - What is Man That Thou Art Mindful of Him?

1954 - Religion in an Age of Science
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