The Metanexus Network began as a global constellation of interdisciplinary communities exploring foundational questions at the intersection of science and spirituality. Growing out of the Local Societies Initiative and later the Metanexus Global Network Initiative, these groups brought together scientists, philosophers, theologians, and scholars to engage questions of meaning, personhood, consciousness, and human purpose beyond the limits of any single discipline.
The original Network focused on two core commitments: dialogue between scientific and spiritual traditions, and transdisciplinary inquiry into the assumptions shaping human understanding. These communities served as spaces for rigorous conversation, intellectual experimentation, and resistance to fragmentation driven by excessive specialization.
Today, Metanexus carries this legacy forward while expanding its scope. As cultural, technological, and existential pressures reshape what it means to be human, the Network is evolving into a broader ecology of communities exploring new ways of being human. Building on its foundational roots, the renewed Network emphasizes lived inquiry, experimentation, and creative engagement with emerging forms of knowledge, practice, and community.
The Metanexus Network is no longer only a site of dialogue, but a space for shared exploration—where inherited questions meet present realities, and new possibilities are allowed to take shape.
Metanexus Groups
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Alphonsa Society for Science and Religion Dialogue (ASSR)
Alphonsa College Kottayam, Kerala State Combining participants from the college, faculty and students of two minor seminaries, three major seminaries, a local Hindu Ashram and several local Mosques, this group promotes an inter-religious dialogue combining multiple perspectives of faith and disciplinary expertise. As Alphonsa is a women’s college, activities are focused, in part, on science
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Animal Consciousness, Philosophy of Mind, and Process Theology (ACPMPT)
Institute for Philosophical Foundations of Theology (IPFT) Department of Catholic Theology Universität Münster Münster A collaboration between three academic departments and one ecclesiastical institute, this society strives to establish a working platform for the interdisciplinary research focusing on the topic of the human-animal-relationship. Core membership brings together academics in philosophy of mind and nature, behavioral
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Arbeitskreis Naturwissenschaft und Theologie Working Group in Science and Theology
Evangelische Akademie Iserlohn This society stems from a project founded in 1971 by the synod and the leading church office of the Evangelical Church of Westphalia to further dialogue on religious, philosophical, metaphysical, sociological, and ethical questions concerning science, technology and nature. Bringing together people with different opinions, beliefs and professions, to deepen reflection, members