Dr. Timothy Stanton is part of a successful Centre of Excellence in Research bid to the Academy of Finland, on the theme of ‘Reason
and Religious Recognition’, to run from 2014-19.
The Board of the Academy of Finland has selected 14 Centres
of Excellence in Research (CoE), involving research teams from twelve
universities or research institutes. The Academy has reserved a total of EUR 45
million for the first three years of the six-year programme term.
“The units selected to the new CoE programme represent the
international cutting edge of research in their respective fields. The Academy
believes that the new CoEs have great potential to achieve significant
breakthroughs in their research and be successful in the competition for EU
funding and international researchers, for instance,” said Marja Makarow, Vice
President for Research at the Academy of Finland.
The Academy’s CoE call attracted a total of 128 letters of
intent, of which the Academy’s Board selected 34 to submit full applications.
These applications were reviewed by international expert panels. Unit
representatives were also interviewed at the Academy.
CoEs are the flagships of Finnish research. They are at the
very cutting edge of science in their fields, carving out new avenues for
research, developing creative research environments and training new talented
researchers for Finnish society and business and industry.
(i) to analyze
historically the encounters and forms of recognition in and between Judaism,
Christianity and Islam, paying special attention to the rational construction
of theological systems in these traditions and
(ii) to use contemporary
philosophy of religion and the cognitive science of religion to understand co-operative
religious reasoning, leading to the elaboration of systematic models of
rational recognition and multicultural tolerance in the field of religion.
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