Chapter 1: The Real Religious Lives of Scientists
Chapter 2: The Voice of Science
Chapter 3: The Voice of Faith
Chapter 4: Spiritual Entrepreneurs
Chapter 5: Suppression or Engagement: How Scientists Handle
Religion in the Classroom
Chapter 6: No God on the Quad: Efforts Toward A Purely Secular
University
Chapter 7: Is God on the Quad?: Making Room for Faith on Campus
Chapter 8: What Scientists are Doing Wrong That They Could be Doing
Right
Chapter 9: Shattering Myths, Toward Dialogue
Elaine Howard Ecklund is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Rice
University, Director of the Program on Religion and Public Life for
the Rice University Institute for Urban Research, and Rice Scholar
of the James Baker III Institute on Public Policy. Ecklund has
received awards and grants from the National Science Foundation,
Russell Sage Foundation, and John Templeton Foundation and is the
author of Korean American Evangelicals: New Models
for Civic Life (Oxford 2008).
"Since surveys of scientists' religious beliefs began nearly a
century ago, no one has produced a study as deep and broad as
Ecklund's. Perhaps its most surprising finding is that nearly a
quarter of the atheists and agnostics describe themselves as
'spiritual.' Surely Science vs. Religion will be the gold standard
of such surveys for decades to come." --Ronald L. Numbers, Hilldale
Professor of the History of Science and Medicine, University of
Wisconsin, Madison
"Drawing on extensive research and interviews, Elaine Howard
Ecklund offers an informative, incisive, engaging, and fair-minded
narrative of the deeply held-and deeply divergent-ideas about
religion among scientists in the academy." --Francisco J. Ayala,
author of Darwin's Gift to Science and Religion
"Science vs. Religion presents an important study on a timely
subject. The book raises issues that merit serious consideration by
anyone who cares about science or religion or the intersection of
the two." --Rev. Dr. John Polkinghorne, Fellow, Queens' College,
Cambridge
"Fascinating." --The Chronicle of Higher Education
"Ecklund dispel[s] myths about today's science professors, offering
an evidence-based peek behind the doors of academia." --Publishers
Weekly
"[Science vs. Religion] is going to seriously undercut some
widespread assumptions out there concerning the science religion
relationship." --Discover Magazine
"Science vs. Religion: What Scientists Really Think is a refreshing
and hopeful book. Its findings deserve wide notice--and discussion.
With this book, Prof. Ecklund has done a great service to science,
to religion, and to the common good." --Rod Dreher, Beliefnet
"Instead of sweeping generalizations, [Ecklund] gives us
individualized voices representing a broad spectrum of convictions.
Her moderately optimistic findings suggest that 'boundary pioneers'
... will have an increasingly important role to play. In
evangelical circles, we still have a long way to go, but there are
hopeful signs--including the appearance of a book such as this."
--Christianity Today
"To a large degree, Ecklund will satisfy the reader's curiosity
concerning the discrepancy of religion between scientists and the
U.S. population in general." --New York Journal of Books
"A fresh perspective. For Ecklund, the bottom line is recognizing
and tolerating religious diversity, honestly discussing science's
scope and limits, and openly exploring the disputed borders between
scientific skepticism and religious faith." --The Washington
Post
"Ecklund's outstanding research-consisting of surveys of nearly
1700 natural and social scientists at major U.S. universities-and
judicious recommendations make this a valuable work for all who
care about the subject of science and religion." --Library Journal,
Starred Review
"We agree that dispelling myths is an important step towards a more
productive relationship between religious and scientific
communitites; Ecklund's pioneering work offers critically important
information toward dispelling those myths." --Books & Culture
"...Ecklund's research affirms that no matter where a person or
institution may land on a spectrum of beliefs about what
constitutes true knowledge, everyone is overdue for a more mature
and nuanced ability to communicate and relate." --Milton Frieser,
Cardus
"...its engages the reader - well written, clear prose...."--Nancy
Nason-Clark, Univeristy of New Brunswick
"Science vs. Religion explores important and interesting questions.
It helps us to see how the voice of science and the voice of faith
have been defined over time by many actors. And it invites us to
shatter some myths along the way: engaging dialogue and strong data
often have this result."--Sociology of Religion
"An ambitious overview of the boundaries between religion and
science seen across time and space...Aided by having this
collection in hand, I am excited at the prospect of comparing
science-oriented language, magic practices, and fertility rites,
for example, across religious cultures. But the point is that I
have the invaluable advantage of acquaintance with this book. Its
essays are thorough, balanced, and masterfully scholarly. Precisely
because they provide
a systematic global overview of religious encounters with science,
they invite riskier research."--Journal of the American Academy of
Religion
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