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Elaine Howard Ecklund is the Herbert S. Autrey Professor of Sociology at the Rice University Department of Sociology, director of the Boniuk Institute for the Study and Advancement of Religious Tolerance, director of the Religion and Public Life Program in Rice's Social Science Research Institute, and a Rice Scholar at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy. She is also a Faculty Affiliate in the Rice Department of Religious Studies. Ecklund received a B.S. in Human Development and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology from Cornell University. Her research focuses on institutional change in the areas of religion, immigration, science, medicine, and gender. She has authored numerous research articles, as well as two books with Oxford University Press.〔http://www.ehecklund.rice.edu/〕 ==''Science vs. Religion: What Scientists Really Think''== Ecklund's 2010 book, ''Science vs. Religion: What Scientists Really Think'' is a systematic study of what scientists actually think and feel about religion. In the course of her research, Ecklund surveyed nearly 1,700 scientists and interviewed 275 of them. Ecklund concluded that "Much of what we believe about the faith lives of elite scientists is wrong. The 'insurmountable hostility' between science and religion is a caricature, a thought-cliche, perhaps useful as a satire on groupthink, but hardly representative of reality."〔Rod Dreher (2010 April 30). ("Science vs. Religion: What do Scientists Say?" ), accessed 2 June 2014.〕 In her book she mentions her most recent finding that at least 50% of scientists consider themselves to have religious traditions. Some of Ecklund's other findings about scientists self descriptions: * 34% were atheist (12% of which also call themselves spiritual), 30% were agnostic, 27% had some belief in God (9% have doubts but affirm their belief, 5% have occasional belief, 8% believe in a higher power that is not a personal God), and 9% of scientists said they had no doubt of God's existence. While more atheistic than the rest of the U.S. population, the research demonstrates that about a third (36%) of these scientists maintain some belief in God, a considerably smaller proportion than the approximately 90% in the general American population. * Most scientists that did express some belief in God considered themselves "religious liberals". * Some atheist scientists still considered themselves "spiritual". * Religious scientists reported that their religious beliefs affected the way they think about the moral implications of their work, not the way they practice science.〔Rod Dreher (2010 April 30). ("Science vs. Religion: What do Scientists Say?" ), accessed 2 June 2014.〕 Ecklund explains that scientists who believe in God may live "closeted lives" to avoid discrimination. Others are what she calls “spiritual entrepreneurs,” seeking creative ways to work with the tensions between science and faith outside the constraints of traditional religion. The book centers on portraits of 10 representative men and women working in the natural and social sciences at top American research universities. Ecklund reveals how scientists—believers and skeptics alikes—are struggling to engage the increasing number of religious students in their classrooms. She argues that many are searching for "boundary pioneers" to cross the picket lines separating science and religion and overcome the "conflict thesis". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Elaine Howard Ecklund」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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