Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science

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Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science is a academic journal published quarterly by Blackwell Publishing Limited of Oxford, England.

Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science is a premier scholarly journal publishing in the area of religion and science dialogue since 1966 until present.

Name “Zygon” [mod. L., ad. ζυγόν Gr. yoke.] according to the journal founder Ralph Wendell Burhoe is the Greek term for anything which joins two bodies, especially the yoking or harnessing of a team which must pull together effectively, is the symbol of this journal. Its aim is to reunite the split team, values and knowledge, where coordination is essential for a viable dynamics of human culture.

Journal Zygon is published through Blackwell Publishing by the Joint Publication Board of Zygon. Zygon's sponsoring organizations which appoint its Joint Publication Board are:

1. Institute on Religion in An Age of Science (IRAS) founded in 1954.

2. Center for Advanced Study in Religion and Science (CASIRAS) founded in 1972.

Editors of Zygon are Philip Hefner, professor emeritus of Systematic Theology, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago and Karl E. Peters, professor emeritus of Philosophy and Religion, Rollins College.

Editorial offices of Zygon are located at Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago together with the Zygon Center for Religion and Science.

According to EBSCOhost, it is "[a]n international forum for exploring ways to unite what in modern times has been disconnected: values from knowledge, goodness from truth, religion from science."