Muslim woman scientist takes top prize in contest promoting science-and-religion research
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Shiva Khalili, Ph.D., an Iranian scholar and clinical therapist at the Iranian Center for Epilepsy in Tehran, took the $2,000 top prize in the first-ever Science & Theology News contest launched to explore the work of scholars at the nexus of science, medicine and theology and to bring their findings to the attention of a wider audience. In a 470-page doctoral dissertation written in German for Austria’s prestigious University of Vienna, Khalili, 37, posits the idea the religious beliefs are part of a person’s psychological makeup and develops a new psychological theory that embraces spirituality along with the naturalistic world view long held by modern science. A practicing Muslim who lives in Tehran, Khalili says that adopting such “a holistic world view” is necessary to avoid reductionism and more fully explain human behavior and experience.
Read the whole article and interview with Dr. Khalili at:
http://www.stnews.org/articles.php?category=news&article_id=1565
Shiva Khalili, Ph.D., an Iranian scholar and clinical therapist at the Iranian Center for Epilepsy in Tehran, took the $2,000 top prize in the first-ever Science & Theology News contest launched to explore the work of scholars at the nexus of science, medicine and theology and to bring their findings to the attention of a wider audience. In a 470-page doctoral dissertation written in German for Austria’s prestigious University of Vienna, Khalili, 37, posits the idea the religious beliefs are part of a person’s psychological makeup and develops a new psychological theory that embraces spirituality along with the naturalistic world view long held by modern science. A practicing Muslim who lives in Tehran, Khalili says that adopting such “a holistic world view” is necessary to avoid reductionism and more fully explain human behavior and experience.
Read the whole article and interview with Dr. Khalili at:
http://www.stnews.org/articles.php?category=news&article_id=1565
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