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May 13, 2011 by News Gatherer
"These scientists are atheists quest for spiritual truth with a deep sense of spirituality -. One that is generated by and in accordance with the work that scientists do." "Our results show that scientists have religion and spirituality as qualitatively different types of buildings, "said Elaine Howard Ecklund, assistant professor of sociology at Rice and author of the study.
For example, scientists see science and spirituality ", that is, without faith," and an individual's search for meaning that can never be final. According to the survey, are consistent with science and spirituality separate from religion because of this investigation, where spirituality is open to a scientific journey, religion requires the purchase of a complete "lack of evidence .."
This challenges the idea that scientists and other groups that generally conceived as a secular, free from the big "Why am I here? Questions. This is not one or the other." Spirituality pervades both the atheist and thought religious. "There lay spirituality even among scientists," said Ecklund. They also have these questions and the basic human desire to find meaning .. "
Ecklund co-authored the study with Elizabeth Long, professor and chair of the Department of Sociology at Rice. In his analysis of the 275 interviews, the scientists found that the terms used to describe the religion, including "organized at the residence, unitary and collective." All terms used to describe spirituality are "individual, personal and personally built." All participants using collective or individual terms assigned collective terms of religion and spirituality are individual terms.
"In the sense of things spiritual being urged to provide assistance to others, and redirect their thinking and do their jobs as scientists.". "Although the data suggest that spirituality is primarily an exercise in different academic researchers, it is not individualist in the classical sense to focus more on themselves," said Ecklund, director of religion and public life Rice Program.
This commitment, as spiritual scientists has created a different approach to research and education, while their colleagues are not spiritual can concentrate on their research at the expense of interaction among students, scientists, spiritual "reasons Spirituality offers non-negotiable to ensure improved outcomes for students to succeed. Ecklund and Long noted that scientists have seen the spiritual boundaries between themselves and their colleagues are not spiritual because spirituality facilitated engagement with the world around them.
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