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INDEXadolescent struggles, of scientists, 30African American, Irving as, 60After Heaven: Spirituality in America Since the1950’s (Wuthnow), 51age, religion relating to, 32agnosticism, of Tobin, 30agnostic scientists, 15, 30, 36Allport, Gordon, 49American evangelicals, 49Americans: as Protestants, majority of, 15t,32, 33, 49, 191n33; resistance of, to science,129; science and, 9–10; scientists v., 34Anthony: classroom discussions of, 83; aslapsed Catholic, 14; as scientist, 14–15, 18anticonversion, 20, 26Arik: definition of religion, 13, 19; Judaismand, 13, 19; as scientist, 13–14, 18, 19–20atheism, science as closer to religion than to,108atheists: dislike of, 24; myths about, 150;spiritual, 6, 7, 58–60; stereotypes of, 151;village, 10atheist scientists, 15, 16, 58bad religion, in society, 22–23beliefs: of Christians, 38–39, 45; core, 34; inGod, 16t, 21, 35–36, 39, 58t, 117, 192n17; inGod, public v. scientists, 16t, 35; of Irving,90; scientific, of Raymond, 72, 154; ofTobin, 30, 40Bellah, Robert N., 52, 53, 55, 195n6Berger, Peter, 36Bernstein, Basil, 26–27, 76best practices, implementation of, 146–47bias, personal, in religion, 17, 120Binder, Amy, 143–44biologists, 42, 111, 113biology, religion and, 40–41, 139–41Bok, Derek, 88born-again Christian, 130boundary ideology, 38boundary pioneers, 6, 7, 45–47, 140, 186n13Budd, Susan, 16, 188n6Buddhism, scientists and, 34, 59, 60, 153,196n24campus: faith on, making room for, 107–25;religion’s resurgence on, 90, 92; studentministries on, 98; support of religion on,110, 122carriers, scientists as, 6–7Catholic Church, 19Catholic scientists, 49Catholics, 14, 20, 33, 34, 42, 117, 130, 144,152, 189n15chaplaincy service and public chapel, atuniversities, 98Christian doctrines: equality and respect forhumanity, 38; human pride and sinfulness,awareness of, 38Christian fundamentalist family, Evelynfrom, 21Christianity, 23, 34, 46, 99, 119, 192n14;golden rule, 23, 190n27; liberal, progressivetradition of, 39; philosophers influenced by,73; questioning core tenets of, 41Christians, 153; beliefs of, 38–39, 45; bornagain,130; evangelical, 29, 74, 100, 155;mainline, 49; moral commitment of, 39Chronicle of Higher Education (Wuthnow), 89church: Catholic, 19; Lutheran, Raymondrelating to, 71; Roman Catholic, 137; andstate, separation of, 78–79, 98, 104, 105,199n11223