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S4 Episode 8: Are scientists allowed to be religious at work?

In the eighth episode of season four, Dr Carissa Sharp, a social psychologist at the University of Birmingham, Dr Renny Thomas, a sociologist at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) in Bhopal, and Dr Arturo Fitz Herbert, from the Communications Department of the Universidad Austral in Buenos Aires in Argentina join Deborah Cohen to discuss what scientists really believe in, and crucially what the public thinks they ‘should’ or ‘do’ believe in!

(This episode was recorded in September 2024)

 

This podcast is 33 minutes and 48 seconds long.

The keywords associated with this episode are:

  • sociology of science
  • sociology of religion
  • social identity
  • public perceptions

You can learn more about the findings of the Science and Religion: Exploring the Spectrum project (including contributions from Arturo and Carissa) in a major new open-access book, International Perspectives on Science, Culture, and Belief: From Complexity to Globality (edited by Fern Elsdon-Baker, Stephen H. Jones and James Riley). To learn more about Renny’s work we highly recommend his 2021 book (in the same series), Science and Religion in India: Beyond Disenchantment

Authors

  • Dr Carissa Sharp is a psychologist of religion whose research focuses on the intersection of belief, identity, and intergroup relations across cultures. At the University of Birmingham, she is a Co-Investigator on the Science and Religion: Exploring the Spectrum of Global Perspectives project.

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  • Director of the Master's Degree in Communication Management in Organizations, Director of the EPC. Full-time professor at the Universidad Austral, and postdoctoral researcher in the project “Science and Religion: exploring perspectives”, led by the University of Birmingham.

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  • Renny Thomas is Assistant Professor (Sociology and Social Anthropology), Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Bhopal, India. Before joining IISER, he taught at the Department of Sociology, Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi, New Delhi (2015-2021). He was the Charles Wallace Fellow in Social Anthropology at Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK (2017-2018).

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The keywords associated with this article are:

  • Argentina
  • India
  • Laboratories
  • Public perceptions
  • Religious scientists
  • Social identity
  • United Kingdom
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