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Vaharaja V. Raman is a philosopher, physicist, and writer. He has served the UNESCO as an educational expert, and taught at the Rochester Institute of Technology for more than three decades before retiring as an Emeritus Professor of Physics and Humanities. Since the 1990s Professor Raman has been very involved with the emerging academic field of Science and Religion. He is the author of fourteen books, has reviewed more than 350 books, and has published papers in ZYGON, the international journal on science and religion, in Science and Spirit, and other scholarly journals.
Over the years, Raman has been a member of several learned societies. He was elected the Senior METANEXUS Fellow on Science and Religion (Philadelphia), and of the International Society for Science and Religion (Cambridge, U.K.), and is a recipient of the Raja Rao Award (Jawaharlal Nehru University), and is an active participant in The Institute on Religion in an Age of Science. He was bestowed the honorific Acharya Vidyasagar by Navyashastra (an organization dedicated to bringing about social and spiritual equality in Hindu society and outlook. His most recent book (Truth and Tension between Science and Religion) has been described as “a must-read for anybody who wants to find a way between the claims of the anti-religion scientists and the anti-science religious believers.”
Vaharaja is a keynote speaker at the symposium.
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