Research seminars
The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion Research Seminars are held at 1.00 p.m. on alternate Tuesdays in the Garden Room, Library Building, St. Edmund’s College. A free light buffet lunch and drinks are served from 12.30 p.m. onwards. All are welcome.
The Garden Room is on the ground floor of the Library Building which is located in the far left-hand corner as you enter the College grounds. The free buffet lunch is served there.
A poster advertising all the Research Seminars can be downloaded as an Adobe Acrobat pdf file (~700Kb).
Lent term
Pluripotent Stem Cells: Medical Dream or Ethical Nightmare?
Tuesday February 21, 2012
The Religious Beliefs of Scientists - a Sociological Analysis
Tuesday March 6, 2012
Abstract
From 2005-2009 Rice University sociologist Elaine Howard Ecklund completed the most comprehensive study to date of how US scientists at top universities understand religion, spirituality, and ethics, surveying nearly 1700 of them and doing in-depth interviews with 275. During the Faraday lecture she will discuss her book on this topic, Science Vs. Religion: What Scientists Really Think (Oxford University Press). She will compare this work with recent interviews she has completed among biologists in the UK. Finally Ecklund will discuss a new study she is beginning that will survey 10,000 biologists and physicists at different points in their careers at top universities and research institutes in the United States, the United Kingdom, Turkey, Italy, France and China to determine how scientists in different national contexts understand the relationship of science and religion (and, where relevant, spirituality) and how religion and spirituality influence their research agendas, daily interactions with students, and ethical decisions and discussions.Further information about the Speakers may be obtained by clicking on the speaker's name above.
