November 28, 2005
Spirituality Soars among Scientists, Study says
Spirituality is important to a majority of scientists in the United States’ elite research universities, says the researcher of a new study on religion.
These scientists are confounding the
prevailing opinion that academics
aren’t religious.
Researcher Elaine Howard Ecklund,
a postdoctoral fellow at Rice University
in Houston, surveyed more than 1,600
scientists from 21 elite research
universities. Ecklund designed the
survey to examine scientists’ religious and
spiritual beliefs as well as their practices.