Science and religion or science versus religion: the position of teachers/researchers of Brazilian universities

• Grant number: 16/24171-7
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: February 01, 2019
• End date: July 31, 2021
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Psychology - Social Psychology
• Principal Investigator: Geraldo Jose de Paiva
• Grantee: Geraldo Jose de Paiva
• Host Institution: Instituto de Psicologia (IP). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated researchers: André Gonçalves Mellagi ; Camila Mendonça Torres ; Fatima Cristina Costa Fontes ; Fatima Regina Machado ; JOSE ROGERIO MACHADO DE PAULA ; Marisa Moura Verdade ; Wellington Zangari
• Associated scholarship(s): 19/12232-0 - Science and religion or science vs religion? The perspective of the researchers / faculty members of Brazilian universities, BP.TT; 19/12209-8 - Science and religion or science vs religion? The perspective of the researchers / faculty members of Brazilian Universities, BP.TT

Abstract

The study of the relationships between science and religion in Brazilian Academy pointed to no existing conscious conflict between science and religion, examined with the concept of life space, and to existing conflicts examined with psychoanalytical insights (Paiva, 1993; 2000). The current project aims at investigating, after twenty years, the current relationships that professors/researchers of the ten highest ranked Brazilian universities do or do not establish between science and religion. This research will be qualiquant, and will be directed to a stratified sample of professors of the three large areas of knowledge, through an online Questionnaire based on previous Brazilian research and on Ecklund´s and Cols. Questionnaire, and will be completed with personal interviews. The general objective is to deep the understanding of the psychological dynamics involved in the academic relationships between science and religion. Specific objectives are to register the psychological implications of religion and science; to quantitatively amplify the data; to update the review of international literature regarding the relationships between science and religion in the Academy; to verify the gradient of academic distance from religion; to compare the position of Brazilian university professors/researchers with their North-American an Italian peers. (AU)