S4 Episode 6: How do students reconcile their beliefs with their school curriculum?
In the sixth episode of season four, Dr Rachael Shillitoe a sociologist and a senior social scientist in the British civil service, and Dr Elizabeth Barnes an Assistant Professor of Biology Education at Middle Tennessee State University, discuss their respective research on what primary school age children think about religion and how to teach culturally […]
S4 Episode 5: What do religious and spiritual Australians think about modern medicine?
In the fifth episode of season four, Dr Anna Halafoff, an Associate Professor of Sociology and coordinator of the Spirituality and Wellbeing (SWell) Research Network, SWELL, based at Deakin University in Melbourne, and Dr Tom Aechtner, Associate Professor at the University of Queensland where he researches Australian-specific sources of vaccine hesitancies around COVID-19 and other […]
S4 Episode 4: How do religious views affect abortion policies in the US and South America?
In the fourth episode of season four, Dr Amy Adamczyk, Professor of Sociology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, part of City University of New York, and Dr Reynaldo Rivera and Dr Maria Sol Barbera, from the School of Communications at the Universidad Austral in Buenos Aries in Argentina, discuss their research on how […]
S4 Episode 3: What do non-religious scientists think about their religious colleagues?
In the third episode of our new series, Dr Rebecca Catto, Associate Professor of Sociology at Kent State University (USA) who was for a decade a Principal Investigator on the Science and Religion, Exploring the Spectrum projects, talks about her research into science and non-religion. (This episode was recorded in August 2024)
S4 Episode 2: What role does morality play in the relationship between religion and science?
In the 2nd episode of Season 4, John H. Evans, Tata Chancellor’s Chair in Social Sciences, Professor of Sociology, and Co-Director of the Institute of Practical Ethics of the University of California San Diego, talks about how his research shows that the religion and science debate should increasingly focus on moral conflict between religion and […]
How should we respond to prejudices about belief?
By Stephen H. Jones Reflections on Islamophobia: Still a Challenge for Us All The publication of The Runnymede Trust’s report Islamophobia: A Challenge for Us All in 1997 was a watershed moment in the history of recognising and opposing anti-Muslim prejudice. The first British policy report to focus on the problem of Islamophobia, it is […]
One Nation, United? Science, Religion, and American Public Opinion
By Shiri Noy and Timothy L. O’Brien Debates about science and religion—whether they conflict and how they factor into public opinion, policies, and politics—are of longstanding interest to social scientists. Research in this area often examines how those in elite positions use science and religion to justify competing claims. But, more generally how do members of […]
Authority, Authenticity, and Belief: British and Canadian life scientists and publics’ narratives of evolution and religion
In April 2017 the team from the Science and Religion: Exploring the Spectrum project hosted a symposium in Birmingham. In this video, project member Dr Tom Kaden presents some of the preliminary findings of the qualitative sociological research being undertaken as part of the project.
‘Most people don’t have the time to be concerned with systems of ideas, because they have day jobs’
By John H. Evans John H. Evans offers a sociologists’ view on science and religion debates John H Evans is the author of Playing God? Human Genetic Engineering and the Rationalization of Public Bioethical Debate and Playing God? Human Genetic Engineering and the Rationalization of Public Bioethical Debate. Here, he talks to Tom Kaden, one […]
