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Investigations of scientists' views of religion have generally only examined the U.S. case. This book, based on a monumental amount of data across eight countries, is without question the most extensive study of religious and national differences in views of religion and science - and expertly shines new light on that relationship. --John H. Evans, Tata Chancellor's Chair and Associate Dean of Social Sciences, University of California San Diego An exciting book to better understand the broad variety of links between science and religion in different national contexts, thanks to a deep quantitative and qualitative survey with scientists in eight countries. --Pierre Br chon, co-editor with Fr d ric Gonthier of European Values, Trends and Divides Over Thirty Years (2017) Science and Secularity provides a meticulously detailed look at how the social contexts of science and religion in different countries shape scientists' views of religion. No matter where one stands in debates about the relationship between science and religion, this book provides for the first time an important social scientific perspective that will be essential to how we understand the relationship between scientists and religious people as well as the university within society around the globe. --Dr Chantal Saint-Blancat, former associated Professor of Sociology, University of Padua

Investigations of scientists' views of religion have generally only examined the U.S. case. This book, based on a monumental amount of data across eight countries, is without question the most extensive study of religious and national differences in views of religion and science - and expertly shines new light on that relationship. --John H. Evans, Tata Chancellor's Chair and Associate Dean of Social Sciences, University of California San Diego An exciting book to better understand the broad variety of links between science and religion in different national contexts, thanks to a deep quantitative and qualitative survey with scientists in eight countries. --Pierre Brechon, co-editor with Frederic Gonthier of European Values, Trends and Divides Over Thirty Years (2017) Science and Secularity provides a meticulously detailed look at how the social contexts of science and religion in different countries shape scientists' views of religion. No matter where one stands in debates about the relationship between science and religion, this book provides for the first time an important social scientific perspective that will be essential to how we understand the relationship between scientists and religious people as well as the university within society around the globe. --Dr Chantal Saint-Blancat, former associated Professor of Sociology, University of Padua

"""The authors do an excellent job of describing the broad contours of science and religion in each region they study..."" -- Amy Unsworth, Science & Christian Belief ""This fascinating and uniquely informative study is thus likely to have a major influence on the field of the sociology of science and religion, thanks both to its findings and what it leaves out. It will no doubt inspire many new studies on individual cases as well as comparative works, and in this respect, marks the beginning of a new stage in the scholarship on science and religion in contemporary societies."" -- M. Alper Yalcinkaya, Review of Religious Research ""the survey gives a rich picture of the field in a variety of cultural contexts, and is well worth close study."" -- David Lorimer, Journal of the Scientific and Medical Network ""This well-written and highly readable book is based on the most comprehensive study of scientists in very different social and cultural contexts, including Western countries and Chinese societies. The survey findings provide an overview of the contrast between scientists and the general population in regard to religion in each society, and the in-depth interviews with scientists provide nuanced understanding of their views and their distinct social and cultural contexts. Among many takeaways, it is interesting to see that from the West to the East, most contemporary scientists do not perceive religion and science in conflict."" -- Fenggang Yang, Professor of Sociology and Director of Center on Religion and Chinese Society, Purdue University ""Investigations of scientists' views of religion have generally only examined the U.S. case. This book, based on a monumental amount of data across eight countries, is without question the most extensive study of religious and national differences in views of religion and science - and expertly shines new light on that relationship.""--John H. Evans, Tata Chancellor's Chair and Associate Dean of Social Sciences, University of California San Diego ""An exciting book to better understand the broad variety of links between science and religion in different national contexts, thanks to a deep quantitative and qualitative survey with scientists in eight countries.""--Pierre Bréchon, co-editor with Frédéric Gonthier of European Values, Trends and Divides Over Thirty Years (2017) ""Science and Secularity provides a meticulously detailed look at how the social contexts of science and religion in different countries shape scientists' views of religion. No matter where one stands in debates about the relationship between science and religion, this book provides for the first time an important social scientific perspective that will be essential to how we understand the relationship between scientists and religious people as well as the university within society around the globe.""--Dr Chantal Saint-Blancat, former associated Professor of Sociology, University of Padua"

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Elaine Howard Ecklund is Herbert S. Autrey Chair in Social Sciences at Rice University. David R. Johnson is Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership at University of Nevada, Reno. Brandon Vaidyanathan is Associate Professor of Sociology at The Catholic University of America. Kirstin R.W. Matthews is Fellow in Science and Technology Policy at the Baker Institute for Public Policy at Rice University. Steven W. Lewis is C.V. Starr Transnational China Fellow at the Baker Institute for Public Policy at Rice University. Robert A. Thomson Jr. is Assistant Professor of Sociology at University of Alabama in Hunstville Di Di is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Santa Clara University

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