Contents

pp iii-iv

List of Figures and Tables

pp v-vi

Notes on Contributors

pp vii-xii

Editors’ Acknowledgement

pp xiii-xiv

Foreword

pp xv-xviii

Editors’ Introduction: Science, Belief and the Sociological Tradition

pp xix-xxxvi

PART I - Methodological Challenges in the Study of Science and Belief

pp 1-2

1 - The Sociological Study of Science and Religion in Context

pp 3-24

2 - Survey-based Research on Science and Religion: A Review and Critique

pp 25-54

3 - Language, Labels and Lived Identity in Debates about Science, Religion and Belief

pp 55-78

4 - Researching Clergy Attitudes towards Science: A Reflective Account of Key Methodological Challenges

pp 79-100

PART II - Belief in the Study of Science and Technology

pp 101-102

5 - From ‘Science and Religion’ to ‘Transcendence in Science’, or: What We Can Learn from the (History of) Science and Technology Studies

pp 103-126

6 - Rational Believers: Religion, Tradition and Spirituality among Indian Scientists

pp 127-146

7 - Muslim Perceptions of Biological Evolution: A Critical Review of Quantitative and Qualitative Research

pp 147-170

PART III - Science, Culture and Non-religion

pp 171-172

8 - Feeling Rational: Affinity and Affinity Narratives in British Science–Non-religion Relations

pp 173-196

9 - Avoiding the ‘Anti-intellectual Abyss’: How Secular Humanists in Sweden try to Define the Boundaries between Science, Religion, Pseudoscience and Postmodernism

pp 197-222

10 - Atheism and the Social Sciences

pp 223-238

PART IV - Religion, Conflict and Moderation

pp 239-240

11 - Science and the Unearned Virtues of the ‘Really Religious People’: Exploring the Association between Perceived Religiosity and Science Rejection among Students in the Midwestern United States

pp 241-262

12 - Discourses on Science and Islam: A View from Britain

pp 263-288

Conclusion: Future Directions in the Sociological Study of Science and Belief

pp 289-298

Index

pp 299-307