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Christopher P. Scheitle's book, "The Faithful Scientist: Experiences of Anti-Religious Bias in Scientific Training," explores the experiences of religious graduate students in science programs. Scheitle challenges the stereotype of the "atheist scientist" by revealing that a significant portion of graduate students identify as religious. However, these students often face a hostile climate that marginalizes their faith, leading them to conceal or suppress their religious identity. This marginalization has implications for their professional experience, mental well-being, relationships, and sense of identity. Scheitle argues for the inclusion of religious diversity in science, as it can bring different perspectives and potentially bridge the gap between science and religious communities. [Extracted from the article]

This paper argues that one way of reading the portrayal of misery in Old English poetry is as an abjected state; something against which the not-miserable self and community is continually being defined. It argues that, to this end, otherness of different forms is constructed as inherently miserable; and that we should therefore be open to reading unhappy figures as inherently othered. Using a range of poetic case studies, it goes on to suggest that this might be because Old English poetic unhappiness is associated with dissociation and fragmentation, which poses a fundamental threat to the profoundly networked sense of selfhood and intersubjective social system prevalent in the same poetic corpus. The social function of performing the poetry of alienation, then, is proposed to be a communal therapy of abjection, inviting self-identification with traumatised figures in order to abject that aspect of the self. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]