the international society for science and religion
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Fellowship of the Society has now grown to over 330 members, with the total
Membership including Associates approaching 400. ISSR Fellows include many of
the most prominent, leading scholars in the science and religion field. Indeed
the first two presidents, George Ellis, a theoretical cosmologist and Professor
of Applied Mathematics at the University of Cape Town, and the late John
Polkinghorne, former Professor of mathematical physics and President of Queen’s
College, Cambridge, are both recipients of the Templeton Prize for Progress
Toward Research or Discoveries about Spiritual Realities – the world’s
best-known religion prize, awarded each year to a living person to encourage and
honour those who advance spiritual matters.
