Αt.H.O.S

Project At.H.O.S aims to challenge some of the basic assumptions of current historical scholarship in the Science and Religion field, using innovative historiographical techniques that go beyond the current state-of-the art historiographical scholarship in the Science and Religion field. Project At.H.O.S aims to make a cutting-edge contribution by focusing on how the Greek Orthodox Christianity and atheism interacted with the Natural Sciences within Greece, from the early 1930s to 1974. Greece is the only Orthodox country that belonged in Western space after the Second World War, but it also hosted a powerful communist Party. It is thus an ideal space for new categories of science and religion analysis to emerge, since its history is not only unknown, but also brings together very disparate elements: A science operating under Western ideals, a very strong native Orthodox Christian tradition, a politically engaged Church and an active communist and leftist intelligentsia. Project At.H.O.S aims to show how the Natural Sciences were seen as a battleground between the politically-laden Greek atheism, the conservative Greek Orthodox Church and the Greek scientific community, which was undergoing a rapid modernization phase under the aegis of NATO-driven science.13 In such a context, political, ideological and cultural factors were as important as purely intellectual arguments, and in fact, in most cases, dominated the discourse.