https://biologos.org/events/online-what-scientists-think-about-religion-and-the-common-values-that-bring-science-and-faith-communities-together/
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ONLINE: What Scientists Think about Religion and the Common Values that Bring Science and Faith Communities Together

Featured Speaker: Elaine Howard Ecklund 
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Starts: Sep 08, 2020 — 6:00PM EST

Ends: Sep 08, 2020 — 7:00PM EST

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Organized by Los Alamos Faith and Science Forum

BioLogos Advisor Elaine Howard Ecklund will present “What Scientists Think about Religion and the Common Values that Bring Science and Faith Communities Together” on Tuesday, September 8, 2020. This online event is hosted by the Los Alamos Faith and Science Forum.

“Based on 15 years of data collection, Elaine Howard Ecklund, who is a sociologist and director of Rice University’s Religion and Public Life Program, will discuss what scientists in eight national contexts think about religion and the relationship between religion and science. She will also examine some of the unexpected shared values that science and faith communities have in common, values that show why science and faith need each other. And Ecklund will talk about how—in these fractured times—the Religion and Public Life Program is using research on religion to build common ground for the common good.”

Elaine Howard Ecklund

Featured Speaker

Elaine Howard Ecklund

Elaine Howard Ecklund is the Herbert S. Autrey Chair in Social Sciences and Professor of Sociology at Rice University, as well as founding director of the Religion and Public Life Program. Ecklund is a sociologist of religion, immigration, and science who examines how individuals bring changes to religious and scientific institutions. She is the author of four books with Oxford University Press, one book with New York University Press, and numerous research articles and op-eds. Her most recent book is Secularity and Science: What Scientists Around the World Really Think About Religion (Oxford University Press, 2019) with coauthors David R. Johnson, Brandon Vaidyanathan, Kirstin R.W. Matthews, Steven W. Lewis, Robert A. Thomson Jr., and Di Di. Her forthcoming book, Why Science and Faith Need Each Other: Eight Shared Values That Move Us Beyond Fear, will be published with Brazos Press, a division of Baker Books, in May 2020.  She has received grants from the National Science Foundation, Russell Sage Foundation, John Templeton Foundation, Templeton World Charity Foundation, and Society for the Scientific Study of Religion. Her research has been cited thousands of times times by local, national, and international media. In 2013, she received Rice University’s Charles O. Duncan Award for Most Outstanding Academic Achievement and Teaching, and in 2018 she gave the Gifford Lecture in Scotland.