Episode 38: Some New World - A Conversation with Peter Harrison

About this episode

Peter Leithart and James Wood discuss Peter Harrison's insights on supernatural belief in a secular context.

Peter Leithart and James Wood have a conversation with Peter Harrison, the author of Some New World: Myths of Supernatural Belief in a Secular Age. Peter Harrison is a former Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion at the University of Oxford and is Professor Emeritus of History and Philosophy at the University of Queensland. He presently holds a Professorial Research Fellowship at the University of Notre Dame, Australia and is a Senior Research Fellow at the Ian Ramsey Centre, Oxfor...

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Hosts: Peter Leithart, James Wood

Guest: Peter Harrison

Topics covered

• supernatural belief
• secular age
• science and religion
• history and philosophy
• Christianity

Keywords

• supernatural belief
• secularism
• science
• religion
• philosophy
• Christianity
• Peter Harrison

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: University of Oxford, University of Queensland, University of Notre Dame, Australia, Ian Ramsey Centre

Books & works: Some New World: Myths of Supernatural Belief in a Secular Age

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