Analysis and exploration of types of relationships between science and religion

Research on the nature of the relationship between science and religion, as two important sources of human's knowledge, has always been at the center of attention of intellectuals of different field of thoughts. But because of the existance of competing and different interpretations, this relationship has its own ups and downs and never has had a dogmatic or static meaning. Nevertheless, intellectuals with introducing diverse models and theories were tried to explain this most confusing relation. This paper aims to analyze and explore these diverse theories and views. For this purpose, first inspired by Alexander, four possible types of relationship between science and religion including "conflict, separation, fusion and complementarity" were described in the light of related views and theories and then a new and exquisite approach in this area was introduced which transcending common ways of understanding science-religion relation, tries to reveal the complexities of this relation in a different light