Peter Harrison
Peter Harrison is an Australian Laureate Fellow and director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Queensland. His most recent book is The Territories of Science and Religion (2015), and his edited collection Narratives of Secularization(2017) will be published later this year.
Is it ever okay to believe in things we consider to be impossible or extremely improbable?
The US is arguably the most scientifically and technologically advanced society in the world, and yet at the same time the most religious of Western societies.