E H Ecklund
Biographic Data
| ID | 79416 |
|---|---|
| NAME | E H Ecklund |
| GIVEN NAMES | E H |
| FAMILY NAME | Ecklund |
| SIGNATURE | ECKLUND E H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rice University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4501-3329 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 111 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 696 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 111 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 15 |
A Renewed Research Agenda to Address Global Religious Violence and Foster Religious Pluralism
The ability of religion to both unite and divide us is a central research topic across academic disciplines. There is important research on the conditions of religious pluralism and tolerance, violence and discrimination, yet disciplinary silos and disconnects between the academy and the public remain barriers to progress. To investigate these problems, we convened 56 scholars of religious pluralism and conflict from different national contexts o…
Beyond Falsification, Fabrication, and Plagiarism: Religion and Ethical Thinking Among Scientists in Three National Contexts
Discussion of ethics among scientists has mainly focused on research ethics related to falsification, fabrication, and plagiarism (FFP). Scientific work goes beyond research, and we know little about the ethical issues involved in the broader range of work that scientists do. In this study, we examine how physicists and biologists in the United States, Mexico, and South Africa say religion and spirituality shape their ethical thinking and stances…
Religious Representation in Science: How Scientists in the United States, Mexico, and South Africa Respond
Many institutions seek to increase representation in science by addressing the limited presence of certain racial and gender groups. These efforts often overlook religion as a dimension of stratification and its connections to other identities. Research on religion and science has focused more on scientists' attitudes toward religion than on the presence of religious individuals within scientific communities. Filling these gaps, this study examin…
Religious Discrimination and Othering in the U.S. After October 7th: A Data Overview
Recent global conflicts have amplified long-standing patterns of religion-related bias and discrimination in the U.S. The continuing war on Gaza has led to bias, hostility, and violence against both Muslims and Jews in the U.S. We present an overview of results from a new 1308-person national survey data collection gathered through NORC’s AmeriSpeak Panel with oversamples of Jews and Muslims. Our findings reveal important reversals, asymmetries, …
Polarization in Support for Anti-Muslim Policies in the United States from 2002 to 2019: The Shift from External Shock to Internal Division
Muslim Americans have faced periods of heightened hostility, particularly in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and, more recently, during the presidency of Donald Trump. Yet, dynamics driving this hostility and the ways individuals might draw boundaries across different time periods is not well understood. We begin to address these data gaps using measures of U.S. adults’ support for anti-Muslim policies appearing in separate surveys in 2002…
Why Public Scholarship Needs Research on Religion for Religious Leaders: H. Paul Douglass Lecture, Religious Research Association
This H. Paul Douglass lecture discusses the critical importance of translating academic research on religion for religious leaders and communities. Over two decades of experience engaging with religious leaders has demonstrated their significant influence on social life, with nearly half of U.S. adults attending religious services monthly. Religious leaders shape their communities' responses to crucial issues including environmental concerns, rac…
Science and Religion in the Context of a Good Death
The desire to improve end-of-life care has driven an increase in research to understand people's preferences and choices when faced with death. Drawing from interviews with 48 religious and non-religious people, we examine how respondents explain the interactions and participation of medical science and religion in constructing what respondents describe as a good death. Respondents draw from religious and scientific toolkits when narrating an ide…
How Workplace Support of Religion and Spirituality Buffered Burnout During the Covid-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated existing resource gaps, particularly in the workplace, often leading to burnout. Research shows that religious and spiritual resources buffer workplace burnout, but little research examines the impact of workplace support for religion and spirituality (R/S) on workplace burnout. Using a nationally representative survey of U.S. workers during the COVID-19 pandemic (N = 1,492), we analyze the association of workpla…
Take It to the Lord: Religion and Responses to Racial Discrimination in the Workplace
Drawing on in-depth interview data from the nationally representative Faith at Work: An Empirical Study, this article contributes to understanding the role of religion in shaping interpretations of and responses to racial discrimination in the workplace. Specifically, it shows how Christians of different racial groups understand the relevance of their faith in coping with perceived racial discrimination in the workplace, and it illuminates the re…
The Intersections among Race, Religion, and Science in Explaining Mental Health Conditions
Racial minority groups in the United States often seek out religious support for mental health struggles. Yet past studies have often overlooked religion as a key explanatory factor shaping racial-ethnic differences in perceptions of mental health conditions such as depression and anxiety. The authors examine whether views of the relationship between religion and science shape agreement with different explanations for mental health conditions. Dr…
How Christian Leaders Navigate Race After George Floyd's Murder: A Study of Unsettled Times
The murder of George Floyd in 2020 and subsequent calls for a reckoning with systematic racism forced many religious leaders to confront the question of how to talk about race in their congregations to an extent not seen in the 21st century. We argue that this period reflects an 'unsettled time' and prompted several types of leadership responses, which we have identified through interviews with Christian religious leaders. Among leaders of non-Bl…
Divine Purpose? Religion, Race, and Attitudes Toward Life Extension Technology
There is a growing sociological literature examining how religion shapes attitudes toward science and technology. However, sociologists have done little to explore how attitudes toward religion and science shape support for end-of-life and life extension technologies. Past research suggests that those most likely to be interested in life extension technologies are nonreligious and White. However, we draw on theories in sociology of religion to ex…
Called to Work: Developing a Framework for Understanding Spiritual Orientations Towards Work
This study examines how individuals understand spiritual calling to work. We draw on theoretic insights from Max Weber and Karl Marx to analyze 186 in-depth interviews with religious individuals in the United States. We argue that these classical frameworks can help us to better understand contemporary religious interpretations of calling in relationship to work. We propose a framework for categorizing ways of viewing work as a calling that consi…
Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley
Fear of Religious Hate Crime Victimization and the Residual Effects of Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia
An individual’s fear of hate crime victimization might be partially explained by direct experiences that influence their assessment of victimization risk. In some cases, though, fear of hate crime victimization is driven not by direct, personal experiences, but by historical and contemporary trauma suffered by those holding the targeted status. Using data from the 2019 nationally representative Experiences with Religious Discrimination Study (ERD…
Patterns of Perceived Hostility and Identity Concealment among Self-Identified Atheists
Researchers have produced important findings regarding the types of stigma associated with nonreligion, particularly atheism. However, while numerous studies analyze who is more or less likely to identify as an atheist given that stigma, less is known about how self-identified atheists manage the stigma associated with their identity. This study uses new survey data from a nationally representative sample of US adults, with an oversample of indiv…
Scientists explain the underrepresentation of women in physics compared to biology in four national contexts
Women are consistently underrepresented in physics when compared to biology. Yet how scientists themselves explain the causes of this underrepresentation is understudied outside the US context. In this research, we ask the following question: How do scientists in different national/regional contexts explain why there are fewer women in physics than biology? Using original survey data collected among academic biologists and physicists in the US ( …
The Limits of Congregational Support for Working Women
Recent scholarship has illuminated the ways that women clergy are disadvantaged in their work, even in congregations that actively support women ministers. How might this disadvantage extend to women congregants who work for pay in other fields? Drawing on 136 interviews from a national study on work and faith, we analyze the accounts of clergy within different types of Christian churches as well as those of women congregants. Surprisingly, we fi…
The Role of Region and Religious Tradition in Predicting Individuals' Expressions of Faith in the Workplace
While many variables might influence an individual's willingness to express their faith in the workplace, the role of regional context has not been fully considered. The different geographical regions in the U.S. consist of unique demographics and cultures that could shape an individual's expression of faith at work. Moreover, these regional effects might be moderated by an individual's specific religious tradition. Using data from a survey of U.…
The Association between Religious Discrimination and Health: Disaggregating by Types of Discrimination Experiences, Religious Tradition, and Forms of Health
Research finds that experiences of religious discrimination are often associated with poorer health outcomes. However, there remain important questions to consider gaps, including whether religious discrimination has similar health impacts on religious minority groups and religious majority groups, whether religious discrimination is equally harmful for both mental and physical health, and whether specific types of discrimination have different i…
The Connection between Perceived Workplace Discrimination and Viewing Work as a Spiritual Calling
Research shows that perceived workplace discrimination shapes an individual's job satisfaction and intent to leave a job. This study considers whether these impacts may be attenuated if an individual views their work as a spiritual calling. Using data from a nationally representative survey (N = 9,907), our analysis shows that perceived work discrimination due to race, gender, and religion are all independently associated with less job satisfacti…
The Relationship between Workplace Status and Workplace Religious Expression
A growing body of literature explores religious expression in workplaces, but comparatively little research examines how religious expression might be shaped by inequality in workplace status. We hypothesize that perceived work autonomy and socioeconomic status (SES) both function as mediating links between organizational status and religious expression. Drawing on a sample of employed adults from a nationally-representative survey in the United …
Religion, Race, and Perceptions of Police Harassment
Research examining how race and ethnic locations shape perceptions of the police is well-established. Yet there is little research examining how religion shapes individuals' experiences with police. This study examines the influence of race and religion on U.S. adults' reported experiences with police harassment due to their religion. We find that, independent of race and ethnicity, Muslim adults are significantly more likely to report police har…
How Religious Discrimination is Perceived in the Workplace: Expanding the View
Although religious discrimination in U.S. workplaces appears to be rising, little is known about how different groups of employees perceive discrimination. Here, the authors draw on 194 in-depth interviews with Muslim, Jewish, Christian, and nonreligious employees to examine perceptions of religious discrimination in the workplace. The authors identify several common modes of perceived discrimination, including verbal microaggressions and stereot…
God Sees No Color' So Why Should I? How White Christians Produce Divinized Colorblindness
The durability of racism in the United States continues to inspire critical scholarship about the mechanisms that drive persisting inequalities. Drawing on theories of colorblindness and white ignorance, growing work examines how White people actively deny, revise, or mystify white supremacy, illuminating cultural mechanisms that (re)produce racialized structures. Largely absent from this body of work, however, is the potential role of religion-s…
Religion among Academic Scientists: Distinctions, Disciplines, and Demographics
The religiosity of scientists is a persistent topic of interest and debate among both popular and academic commentators. Researchers look to this population as a case study for understanding the intellectual tensions between religion and science and the possible secularizing effects of education. There is little systematic study, however, of religious belief and identity among academic scientists at elite institutions, leaving a lacuna of knowled…
Male Scientists' Competing Devotions to Work and Family: Changing Norms in a Male-Dominated Profession
Using in-depth interviews with 74 men across different ranks in biology and physics at prestigious U.S. universities, the authors ask to what extent changing norms of fatherhood and a flexible workplace affect men working in a highly male-dominated profession and what variation exists in family forms. The authors conceptualize four typologies of men: those forgoing children, egalitarian partners, neotraditional dual earners, and traditional bread…
Beyond the In-Person Interview? How Interview Quality Varies Across In-person, Telephone, and Skype Interviews
Conducting qualitative interviews in-person is usually presented as the gold standard, with other modes being seen as inferior. There have been arguments, however, that remote interviews, such as those conducted using the telephone or videoconference technologies, should be seen as equivalent to or even superior to in-person interviews. Evaluations of these claims have been limited by the small number of interviews used to compare modes. We analy…
Religious Service Attendance Among Immigrants: Evidence From the New Immigrant Survey-Pilot
A growing body of research by scholars of religion and immigration analyzes the religious organizations started by post-1965 immigrants to the United States. Little research, however, focuses on patterns in religious service attendance. The authors use pilot data from the New Immigrant Survey, a nationally representative sample of new legal immigrants to the United States, to systematically consider, for the first time, how demographic, familial,…
Conflict Between Religion and Science Among Academic Scientists
Using new survey data (N= 1,646), we examine the attitudes academic scientists at 21 elite U.S. research universities have about the perceived conflict between religion and science. In contrast to public opinion and scholarly discourse, most scientists do not perceive a conflict between science and religion. Different from what other studies would indicate, this belief does not vary between social and natural scientists. We argue that maintaining…
Religion among Scientists in International Context: A New Study of Scientists in Eight Regions
Scientists have long been associated with religion's decline around the world. But little data permit analysis of the religiosity of scientists or their perceptions of the science-faith interface. Here we present the first ever survey data from biologists and physicists in eight regions around the world-France, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Taiwan, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States, countries and regions selected because they exhibit d…
Gender Segregation in Elite Academic Science
Efforts to understand gender segregation within and among science disciplines have focused on both supply- and demand-side explanations. Yet we know little about how academic scientists themselves view the sources of such segregation. Utilizing data from a survey of scientists at thirty top U.S. graduate programs in physics and biology (n = 2,503) and semistructured interviews with 150 of them, this article examines the reasons academic scientist…
Secularization and Religious Change among Elite Scientists
Sociologists of religion have often connected secularization to science, but have rarely examined the role of religion in the lives of scientists or how the sciences have changed religiously over time. Here we address this shortcoming by comparing religiosity between two samples of elite academic natural and social scientists, one in 1969 and one in 2005. Findings show an overall decline in religiosity among university scientists as well as a cha…
Roundtable on the Sociology of Religion: Twenty-Three Theses on the Status of Religion in American Sociology--A Mellon Working-Group Reflection
American sociology has not taken and does not take religion as seriously as it needs to in order to do the best sociology possible. Despite religion being an important and distinctive kind of practice in human social life, both historically and in the world today, American sociologists often neglect religion or treat it reductionistically. We explore several reasons for this negligence, focusing on key historical, conceptual, methodological, and …
Scientists and Spirituality
We ask how scientists understand spirituality and its relation to religion and to science. Analyses are based on in-depth interviews with 275 natural and social scientists at 21 top U.S. research uni-versities who were part of the Religion among Academic Scientists survey. We find that this subset of scientists have several distinct conceptual or categorical strategies for framing the connection spiri-tuality has with science. Such distinct frami…
Us' and 'Them: The role of religion in mediating and challenging the 'model minority' and other civic boundaries
This article examines how Korean Americans use the cultural resources of religious communities to mediate race, ethnic, and socio-economic boundaries that have consequences for civic life. Specifically, I compare involvement of Korean Americans in second-generation Korean congregations to those in multiethnic churches. I find Korean Americans who participate in second-generation Korean churches use religion to largely reproduce images of Korean A…
Individual Religiosity and Orientation towards Science: Reformulating Relationships
David R. Johnson, Christopher P. Scheitle, Elaine Howard Ecklund Sociological Science, March 11, 2015 DOI 10.15195/v2.a7 Abstract The religion-science relationship has been the focus of a growing body of research
Scientists Negotiate Boundaries Between Religion and Science
Analysis of interviews with 275 natural and social scientists at 21 elite U.S. research universities suggests that only a minority of scientists see religion and science as always in conflict. Scientists selectively employ different cultural strategies with regards to the religion-science relationship: redefining categories (the use of institutional resources from religion and from science), integration models (scientists strategically employ the…
Asian American Community Participation and Religion: Civic Model Minorities
Asian Americans Contribute to Diversity Asian Americans are one of the fastest-growing non-white U.S. racial groups,2 and they often have a public image as "model minorities," inherently predisposed to achieve educational and economic success.3 Scholars have largely dispelled the model minority image. Yet, many Asian Americans, although certainly not all, do achieve high education and income.4 For other groups of Americans, civic participation te…
Political conservatism, religion, and environmental consumption in the United States
The role of political conservatism and religion in shaping attitudes toward environmental consumption in the US is examined. Previous research suggests that while there is a mixed relationship between religiosity (measured in various ways) and environmentalism, political conservatives are unlikely to support pro-environment measures. Using nationally representative survey data, mixed results are found regarding the relationship of religiosity and…
Religious Diversity and Community Volunteerism Among Asian Americans
We examine whether religious membership and participation foster community volunteerism among a religiously diverse group of Asian Americans. We use data from the Social Capital Community Benchmark Survey (SCCBS), the only data set that contains both a large, national sample of Asian Americans and detailed questions on religious and civic participation. Asian-American Protestants, Catholics, and adherents of non-Christian religions are involved i…
How Evangelicals from Two Churches in the American Southwest Frame Their Relationship with the Environment
In this article, we analyze the ways in which Evangelicals frame a rhetoric of environmental concern and environmental apathy, with a larger focus on the latter. Heeding calls to further explore within-Evangelical differences, we compare environmental narratives of 20 leaders and laity of a predominantly white Southern Baptist congregation and 20 leaders and laity from an African American Baptist church, both located in a Southwestern American ci…
Catholic Women Negotiate Feminism: A Research Note
For women who identify as both committed Catholics and feminists, how do they negotiate between these two apparently contradictory identities? I use data from one congregation and propose three possibilities for such negotiation. Women reinterpret feminism in light of Catholicism, re-interpret Catholicism in light of feminism, or see both feminism and Catholicism as very subjective and individual identities. This work has implications for how sch…
Negotiating Continuity: Family and Religious Socialization for Second-Generation Asian Americans
This article examines second-generation Asian Americans' explanations of the significant influences on their own religious identities. Data include interviews (N = 73) with college-aged Asian Americans from different religious traditions and ethnic backgrounds. Respondents viewed families as the most significant influence on current religiosity. Mothers and fathers were mentioned most often, followed by extended kin, siblings, and relatives, who …
Models of Civic Responsibility: Korean Americans in Congregations with Different Ethnic Compositions
This article compares different discourses of civic responsibility for Korean American evangelicals in a second-generation Korean congregation and a multiethnic congregation located in the same impoverished ethnic minority community. Those in the second-generation church define civic responsibility through difference from immigrant Koreans. They stress caring for members of their local community and explicitly reject their parents' connection of …
Individuals' Experiences with Religious Hostility, Discrimination, and Violence: Findings from a New National Survey
While concerns about the consequences of anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, and other forms of religious bias have grown in the past several years, the data available to examine these issues have been limited. This study utilizes new data from a nationally representative survey of U.S. adults featuring oversamples of key religious minority groups and an instrument dedicated to measuring the extent to which individuals experience hostility, discriminati…
Rejecting the conflict narrative: American Jewish and Muslim views on science and religion
Sociological research on the US population's views of science and religion has recently burgeoned, but focuses primarily on Christian fundamentalists and evangelicals. Our study advances understandings of how Americans of non-Christian faiths - namely Judaism and Islam - perceive the relationship between science and religion. We draw on in-depth interviews (N=92) conducted in Orthodox Jewish, Reform Jewish, and Sunni Muslim congregations in two m…
Atheists and Agnostics Negotiate Religion and Family
Through in-depth interviews with scientists at elite academic institutions—those particularly likely to have no firm belief in God—we provide insight into the motives scientists who are not religious have for joining a religious group and the struggle faced by these individuals in reconciling personal beliefs with what they consider the best interests of their families. Narratives stress the use of resources from identities as scientists to provi…
Organizational Culture and Women's Leadership: A Study of Six Catholic Parishes
I report results from a study of women's leadership among six Catholic parishes. I asked how these parishes differed, if at all, in the congregational culture surrounding women's leadership and discovered distinct factors that characterized a progressive parish culture of women in leadership when compared to a more traditional culture. In progressive parishes priests actively encouraged women's leadership as part of a larger commitment to lay lea…
Narratives of Science Outreach in Elite Contexts of Academic Science
Using data from interviews with 133 physicists and biologists working at elite research universities in the United States, we analyze narratives of outreach. We identify discipline-specific barriers to outreach and gender-specific rationales for commitment. Physicists view outreach as outside of the scientific role and a possible threat to reputation. Biologists assign greater value to outreach, but their perceptions of the public inhibit commitm…
Catholic Women Negotiate Feminism: A Research Note
For women who identify as both committed Catholics and feminists, how do they negotiate between these two apparently contradictory identities? I use data from one congregation and propose three possibilities for such negotiation. Women reinterpret feminism in light of Catholicism, re-interpret Catholicism in light of feminism, or see both feminism and Catholicism as very subjective and individual identities. This work has implications for how sch…
People of Faith: Religious Conviction in American Journalism and Higher Education
Journal Article People of Faith: Religious Conviction in American Journalism and Higher Education by John Schmalzbauer. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002, 288 pp.; $32.50 (paper) Get access Elaine Howard Ecklund Elaine Howard Ecklund Cornell University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 65, Issue 1, Spring 2004, Pages 98–100, https://doi.org/10.2307/3712516 Published: 01 Mar…
Asian American Community Participation and Religion: Civic Model Minorities
Asian Americans Contribute to Diversity Asian Americans are one of the fastest-growing non-white U.S. racial groups,2 and they often have a public image as "model minorities," inherently predisposed to achieve educational and economic success.3 Scholars have largely dispelled the model minority image. Yet, many Asian Americans, although certainly not all, do achieve high education and income.4 For other groups of Americans, civic participation te…
Different Identity Accounts for Catholic Women
Religion and Immigration: Christian Jewish, and Muslim Experiences in the United States
Journal Article Religion and Immigration: Christian Jewish, and Muslim Experiences in the United States. Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad, Janie I. Smith, John L. Esposito (Eds.). Walnut Creek: Alta Mira Press, 2003, 296 pp, 24.95 (paper) Get access Elaine Howard Ecklund Elaine Howard Ecklund Rice University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 66, Issue 1, Spring 2005, Pages 86–87, https://d…
Models of Civic Responsibility: Korean Americans in Congregations with Different Ethnic Compositions
This article compares different discourses of civic responsibility for Korean American evangelicals in a second-generation Korean congregation and a multiethnic congregation located in the same impoverished ethnic minority community. Those in the second-generation church define civic responsibility through difference from immigrant Koreans. They stress caring for members of their local community and explicitly reject their parents' connection of …
Us' and 'Them: The role of religion in mediating and challenging the 'model minority' and other civic boundaries
This article examines how Korean Americans use the cultural resources of religious communities to mediate race, ethnic, and socio-economic boundaries that have consequences for civic life. Specifically, I compare involvement of Korean Americans in second-generation Korean congregations to those in multiethnic churches. I find Korean Americans who participate in second-generation Korean churches use religion to largely reproduce images of Korean A…
Korean American Evangelicals: New Models for Civic Life
In an age of what many call a declining civil society, it is crucial to ask how changes in the racial, ethnic, and religious composition of the United States will influence how we live together as American citizens. Religious communities are among the primary places Americans form civic identities. This book explores how Korean Americans, a growing segment of American evangelicals, use religion to negotiate civic responsibility. It compares Korea…
Religious Service Attendance Among Immigrants: Evidence From the New Immigrant Survey-Pilot
A growing body of research by scholars of religion and immigration analyzes the religious organizations started by post-1965 immigrants to the United States. Little research, however, focuses on patterns in religious service attendance. The authors use pilot data from the New Immigrant Survey, a nationally representative sample of new legal immigrants to the United States, to systematically consider, for the first time, how demographic, familial,…
Organizational Culture and Women's Leadership: A Study of Six Catholic Parishes
I report results from a study of women's leadership among six Catholic parishes. I asked how these parishes differed, if at all, in the congregational culture surrounding women's leadership and discovered distinct factors that characterized a progressive parish culture of women in leadership when compared to a more traditional culture. In progressive parishes priests actively encouraged women's leadership as part of a larger commitment to lay lea…
Handbook of Religion and Social Institutions
Religion among Academic Scientists: Distinctions, Disciplines, and Demographics
The religiosity of scientists is a persistent topic of interest and debate among both popular and academic commentators. Researchers look to this population as a case study for understanding the intellectual tensions between religion and science and the possible secularizing effects of education. There is little systematic study, however, of religious belief and identity among academic scientists at elite institutions, leaving a lacuna of knowled…
Negotiating Continuity: Family and Religious Socialization for Second-Generation Asian Americans
This article examines second-generation Asian Americans' explanations of the significant influences on their own religious identities. Data include interviews (N = 73) with college-aged Asian Americans from different religious traditions and ethnic backgrounds. Respondents viewed families as the most significant influence on current religiosity. Mothers and fathers were mentioned most often, followed by extended kin, siblings, and relatives, who …
Religious Diversity and Community Volunteerism Among Asian Americans
We examine whether religious membership and participation foster community volunteerism among a religiously diverse group of Asian Americans. We use data from the Social Capital Community Benchmark Survey (SCCBS), the only data set that contains both a large, national sample of Asian Americans and detailed questions on religious and civic participation. Asian-American Protestants, Catholics, and adherents of non-Christian religions are involved i…
God’s New Whiz Kids? Korean American Evangelicals on Campus (review)
Reviewed by: God’s New Whiz Kids? Korean American Evangelicals on Campus elaine howard ecklund (bio) God’s New Whiz Kids? Korean American Evangelicals on Campus. By Rebecca Y. Kim. New York and London: New York University Press, 2006 Asian American Evangelical groups are flourishing on America's college and university campuses: "On the East Coast, one out of four Evangelical college students at New York City colleges and universities are Asian Am…
Secularization and Religious Change among Elite Scientists
Sociologists of religion have often connected secularization to science, but have rarely examined the role of religion in the lives of scientists or how the sciences have changed religiously over time. Here we address this shortcoming by comparing religiosity between two samples of elite academic natural and social scientists, one in 1969 and one in 2005. Findings show an overall decline in religiosity among university scientists as well as a cha…
Religion and Spirituality: A Barrier and a Bridge in the Everyday Professional Work of Pediatric Physicians
We investigate how 30 pediatricians and pediatric oncologists who practice and teach at elite medical centers determine whether religion and spirituality are relevant to what Andrew Abbot (1988) calls their professional "jurisdictions." Through in-depth interviews we focus on their everyday interactions with patients and families. We ask: (1) How do they gather information about religion and spirituality and determine when that information is rel…
Conflict Between Religion and Science Among Academic Scientists
Using new survey data (N= 1,646), we examine the attitudes academic scientists at 21 elite U.S. research universities have about the perceived conflict between religion and science. In contrast to public opinion and scholarly discourse, most scientists do not perceive a conflict between science and religion. Different from what other studies would indicate, this belief does not vary between social and natural scientists. We argue that maintaining…
Science vs Religion: What Scientists Really Think
Americans support science as well as religion—but these two things are often at odds. In the wake of recent controversies about teaching intelligent design and the ethics of embryonic-stem- cell research, greater understanding between scientists and the general religious public is critical. What is needed is a balanced assessment of the middle ground that can exist between science and religion. Science vs. Religion: What Do Scientists Really Thin…
Nativity Differences in Physical Health: The Roles of Emotional Support, Family, and Social Integration
U.S. immigrants are a physically healthy population, but we do not understand the explanatory factors responsible for their physical health status, particularly those related to social network support. Using data from the 2001 wave of the National Health Interview Survey, we examine multiple measures of immigrant adaptation, investigating their influence on measures of physical health. In particular, we examine how well indicators of social suppo…
Atheists and Agnostics Negotiate Religion and Family
Through in-depth interviews with scientists at elite academic institutions—those particularly likely to have no firm belief in God—we provide insight into the motives scientists who are not religious have for joining a religious group and the struggle faced by these individuals in reconciling personal beliefs with what they consider the best interests of their families. Narratives stress the use of resources from identities as scientists to provi…
Scientists Negotiate Boundaries Between Religion and Science
Analysis of interviews with 275 natural and social scientists at 21 elite U.S. research universities suggests that only a minority of scientists see religion and science as always in conflict. Scientists selectively employ different cultural strategies with regards to the religion-science relationship: redefining categories (the use of institutional resources from religion and from science), integration models (scientists strategically employ the…
Contested Reproduction: Genetic Technologies, Religion, and Public Debate
In Contested Reproduction: Genetic Technologies, Religion, and Public Debate, University of California, San Diego, Professor of Sociology, John H. Evans directs the lens of sociology on how religious viewpoints shape discussion about reproductive genetic technologies (RGTs)—for example, using fetal testing through amniocentesis to determine whether a fetus has a deadly or potentially debilitating genetic disorder. This novel effort is important, …
Scientists and Spirituality
We ask how scientists understand spirituality and its relation to religion and to science. Analyses are based on in-depth interviews with 275 natural and social scientists at 21 top U.S. research uni-versities who were part of the Religion among Academic Scientists survey. We find that this subset of scientists have several distinct conceptual or categorical strategies for framing the connection spiri-tuality has with science. Such distinct frami…
Missing Data in Sociological Research: An Overview of Recent Trends and an Illustration for Controversial Questions, Active Nonrespondents and Targeted Samples
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