Their goal was not navigation and accurate knowledge but rather religious instruction.

WSJ: Lost in Our Maps: A History of Cartographic Catastrophes

Artefacts from the National Museum of Damascus (the Syrian Arab Republic) and the Nubian Museum in Aswan (Egypt) are selected to highlight this intercultural exchange of scientific, religious and artistic forms of knowledge.

UNESCO: CULTURE

Programmes, notably building capacities of young religious leaders to engage them in interfaith initiatives that aim to promote increased knowledge and sensitivity about the diversity of spiritual traditions.

UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

Focusing on early 20th-century Britain, he describes in scholarly detail different strategies for harmonising faith and knowledge: the sought-after alliance between liberal theologians in the Church of England and religious-minded scientists, and the rather different efforts of science-minded writers such as Julian Huxley and George Bernard Shaw to foster a modern, non-Christian religion.

ECONOMIST: Religion and science