Name: Secularity and Science: What Scientists Around the World Really Think About Religion - Event - BioLogos
Start: 2019-09-16T19:00:00.000Z
End: 2019-09-16T20:30:00.000Z

BioLogos Advisor Elaine Howard Ecklund will present on Monday, September 16 on her new book Secularity and Science. 

Secularity and Science: What Scientists Around the World Really Think About Religion

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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 <em>Secularity and Science: What Scientists Around the World Really Think About Religion</em> (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, <em>Why Science and Faith Need Each Other: Eight Shared Values That Move Us Beyond Fear</em>, 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.

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