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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Association for the Dialogue Between Science and Theology, Romania (ADSTR)
Astronomical Institute of the Romanian Academy Bucharest In partnership with over ten educational and religious institutions in the region, this society brings together faculty, students and clergy to organize discussion groups and public conferences. Members include priests, professional scientists, and professors from fields including physics, astronomy, law, sociology, philosophy, mathematics, and Orthodox theology. The group
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Association for the Study of the Interplay between Religion and Science (ASIRS)
University of Maiduguri Maiduguri, Borno State This group of scholars, representing four educational institutions in northeastern Nigeria, brings together academics with expertise in Islamic studies, education, science, and chaplaincy to this advanced regional outreach and engagement project. Focused on promoting science and religion dialogue on a broad and participatory level, core members come together to
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Associazione Culturale/ Institute of Cultural Studies
Focolare Movement Rocca di Papa, Rome This society is an affiliation of university lecturers and researchers from a multitude of theological, philosophical and scientific disciplines, meeting regularly to explore the value of religious insights in diverse areas of human knowledge. Bringing together a broad representation of specializations in theology, philosophy, mathematics, environmental ethics, sociology, literature,