This website is created by and about William Grassie, a.k.a Billy Grassie. Copyright 2007. All rights reserved.
William Grassie is founder and emeritus executive director of the Metanexus Institute on Religion and Science. Metanexus currently works with some 400 partners at universities in 43 countries. Grassie continues to serve as executive editor of the Institute’s online magazine, the Global Spiral, with hundreds of thousand monthly page views and over 9000 subscribers.
Grassie received his doctorate in religion from Temple University in 1994 and his BA from Middlebury College in 1979. Grassie has taught in a variety of positions at Temple University, Swarthmore College, and the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to graduate school, Grassie worked for ten years in international relations and conflict resolution in Washington, D.C; Jerusalem, Israel; Berlin, Germany; and Philadelphia, PA.
He is the recipient of a number of academic awards and grants from the American Friends Service Committee, the Roothbert Fellowship, and the John Templeton Foundation. In 2007-2008, Grassie is serving as a Fulbright Fellow in the Department of Buddhist Studies at the University of Peradeniya in Kandy, Sri Lanka.
This website contains copies of essays and photographs by William Grassie. Topics include religion and science, including the sciences of religion and spirituality (psychology of religion, sociology of religion, anthropology of religion, economics of religion, the neurosciences of religion, evolutionary psychology and religion). Other topics include hermeneutics, postmodernism, pedagogy, nuclear weapons proliferation, civil society, ecology and the environment.