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Secularity and Science

Audiobook
Nonfiction: Science
Unabridged   9 hour(s)
Publication date: 08/20/2019

Secularity and Science

What Scientists Around the World Really Think About Religion

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Audio CD ISBN:9781684570386
Digital Download ISBN:9781684570393

Summary

Secularity and Science leaves inaccurate assumptions about science and religion behind, offering a new, more nuanced understanding of how science and religion interact and how they can be integrated for the common good.

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Do scientists see conflict between science and faith? Which cultural factors shape the attitudes of scientists toward religion? Can scientists help show us a way to build collaboration between scientific and religious communities, if such collaborations are even possible?

To answer these questions and more, the authors of Secularity and Science: What Scientists Around the World Really Think About Religion completed the most comprehensive international study of scientists' attitudes toward religion ever undertaken, surveying more than 20,000 scientists and conducting in-depth interviews with over 600 of them. From this wealth of data, the authors extract the real story of the relationship between science and religion in the lives of scientists around the world. The book makes four key claims: there are more religious scientists than we might think; religion and science overlap in scientific work; scientists—even atheist scientists—see spirituality in science; and finally, the idea that religion and science must conflict is primarily an invention of the West. Secularity and Science leaves inaccurate assumptions about science and religion behind, offering a new, more nuanced understanding of how science and religion interact and how they can be integrated for the common good.

Reviews/Praise

"An exciting book to better understand the broad variety of links between science and religion in different national contexts, thanks to a deep quantitative and qualitative survey with scientists in eight countries."—Pierre Bréchon, co-editor with Frédéric Gonthier of European Values, Trends and Divides Over Thirty Years (2017)

Author Bio

Elaine Howard Ecklund is Herbert S. Autrey Chair in Social Sciences at Rice University. David R. Johnson is Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership at University of Nevada, Reno. Brandon Vaidyanathan is Associate Professor of Sociology at The Catholic University of America. Kirstin R. W. Matthews is Fellow in Science and Technology Policy at the Baker Institute for Public Policy at Rice University. Steven W. Lewis is C. V. Starr Transnational China Fellow at the Baker Institute for Public Policy at Rice University. Robert A. Thomson, Jr., is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Rice University. Di Di is a doctoral candidate at Rice University.