Elaine Howard Ecklund is a sociology professor whose work investigates how individuals leverage race, gender, and religious identities to effect changes in religious and scientific institutions. Her research delves into the dynamic interplay between faith and science, exploring how these spheres mutually influence and reshape one another in the modern world. Through her studies, she uncovers the complex ways social identities are constructed and how they contribute to transformations within societal structures. Her influential writings offer profound insights into contemporary social and religious trends.
Why study atheism among scientists? -- "Tried and found wanting" : how atheist scientists explain religious transitions -- "I am not like Richard:" modernist atheist scientists -- Ties that bind : culturally religious atheists -- Spiritual atheist scientists -- What atheist scientists think about science -- How atheist scientists approach meaning and morality -- From rhetoric to reality : why religious believers should give atheist scientists a chance.
Using new research to reveal how faith and science illuminate universal truths about the human experience, this book shows readers they don't have to choose between Christian belief and science.