William Grassie
Bio
William Grassie has a bachelor’s degree in political science and international relations from Middlebury College and a doctorate in religion from Temple University. He has taught in a variety of positions at Temple University, Swarthmore College, and the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to graduate school, he worked for 10 years in international relations and conflict resolution in Washington, D.C., Jerusalem, Berlin, and Philadelphia. He is the recipient of a number of academic awards and grants from the American Friends Service Committee, the Roothbert Fellowship, and the John Templeton Foundation. In 2007–2008, he served as a Senior Fulbright Fellow in the department of Buddhist studies at the University of Peradeniya in Kandy, Sri Lanka. He is the author of The New Sciences of Religion: Exploring Spirituality from the Outside In and Bottom Up (Palgrave Macmillian, 2010) and a collection of essays, Politics by Other Means: Science and Religion in the 21st Century (Metanexus, 2010). He has also edited two volumes: Advanced Methodologies in the Scientific Study of Religion and Spirituality (Metanexus, 2010) and H+/-Transhumanism and Its Critics (Metanexus, 2010) with Gregory Hansell. For more information, go to www.grassie.net.
Recent Essays
- The Great Matrix of Being
- The Big Book on Big History: An Illuminated Manuscript
- Warning Label: Big Pharma meets Big History
- Imagining the Invisible
- How to be a Competent Outsider
- Mathematics and the Game of Thrones
- The Queen of the Sciences
- Easter: A Moveable Feast
- Christmas From the Outside In: A Meditation
- Envisioning a Civilization Recovery Plan
- Humans Plus or Minus: An Introduction
- Apocalypse Not
- H-: Millennialism at the Singularity: Reflections on Metaphors, Meanings, and the Limits of Exponential Logic
- Big History Gets Bigger
- Darwin Road Leads to Hell in Michigan
- Greece, the Global Economy, and Big History
- Zombies Fighting Over Who Is Right: A Nightmare on Main Street
- Seeking Truth in a World of Competing Narratives
- Energy Solutions From the Perspective of Big History
- Conflicting Ideologies and Entangled Narratives
- Storied Nature of Human Nature
- Redacting the Bible: A Case Study in Historical Criticism
- The Sciences of Sacred Scriptures
- Big History: Engaging the New Narrative of Science
- The Universe Between Atheism and Fundamentalism
- History as Science
- Telling Time: A Correlated History of the Universe
- The Neuroscience of the Bar Mitzvah
- The New Silent Majority?
- In the Heavens as It Is on Earth
- Re-reading Economics: In Search of New Economic Metaphors for Biological Evolution
- Ha! Philosophy of Science in the Comedy Club
- Peak Humanity
- Climates Change!
- NSoR 0: Introduction
- NSoR 1: The Challenge of Comparative Religion
- NSoR 2: The Old Sciences of Religion
- NSoR 3: The Economics of Religion
- NSoR 4: The Evolution of Religion
- NSoR 5: The Neurosciences of Religion
- NSoR 6: The Medicine of Religion
- NSoR 7: The Narratives of Religion
- NSoR 8: The New Religion of Science
- NSoR 9: God-by-Whatever-Name
- NSoR 10: Reiterations and Reflections
- Journey of the Universe: Movie, Book, Curriculum
- Plastic Monks Reflecting on Pratitya-Samutpada
- Postdarwinism: The New Synthesis
- Process Ecology in Process
- Useless Arithmetic and Inconvenient Truths
- Eating Well Together: Donna Haraway’s Companion Species Manifesto
- Post-Darwinism: The New Synthesis
- Resources and Problems in Whitehead’s Metaphysics
- Nationalism, Terrorism, and Religion: A Bio-Historical Approach
- Entangled Narratives
- Teaching the History of Nature
- The Neurosciences of Religion: Meditation, Entheogens, Mysticism
- The New Sciences of Religion: Outside In and Bottom Up
- Sleepless in Tehran
- Biocultural Evolution in the 21st Century
- Human Creativity: Expanding Complexity and Evolutionary Discontinuities
- Envisioning a Civilization Recovery Plan
- Universalism and Particularism: Judaism in an Age of Science
- Leeches on the Road to Enlightenment
- Review of Michael Dowd’s “Thank God For Evolution!”
- Plastic Monks Reflecting on Pratitya-samutpada
- Metanexus: The Challenge Ahead
- The Case of the Missing Book: Setting the Record Straight on William Dembski, the Templeton Foundation, and Intelligent Design
- Reinventing Science Education in the 21st Century
- Metanexus: What’s In a Name?
- Science, Religion, and the Bomb
- Science, Semiotics and the Sacred
- Universal Reason: Science, Religion, and the Foundations of Civil Societies
- Beyond Intelligent Design
- Ten Reasons for the Constructive Engagement of Science and Religion
- Which Universe Do You Live In?
- The Concealed God of Science
- Human Creativity Revisited