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November 2017

November 22, 2017

How Religion Is Like Play

Is religion a form of play? I asked this question in a recent article in Orbiter,...

June 2017

June 06, 2017

Religious beliefs are a kind of play

Why do people believe in God or gods? One philosopher argues that religious beliefs are...

May 2017

May 22, 2017

Science and religion really are in conflict, people

The culture of science breaks ties with the past, while religion cherishes them. So for...

January 2016

January 21, 2016

Think the Muslim world needs to “reform?” Think again

If we want a future with less Islamist terrorism, we want the opposite of a...

August 2014

August 04, 2014

Believing Impossible Stuff Is Dangerous. Except When It’s Awesome.

What happens when all children know to only accept plain facts, and to cannily dismiss...

July 2014

July 28, 2014

Informal Study Finds Bloggers Can’t Tell Fact from Fiction

A study shared widely in the TwitFaceBlogosphere says that religious children can't tell fact from...

April 2014

April 14, 2014

Awe increases religious belief

Two researchers from California have found that awe-inspiring images make people believe more in God....

March 2014

March 06, 2014

Being powerful makes you think analytically

There’s a causal relationship between social pecking order position and analytical cognition – so it’s...

June 2013

June 18, 2013

5 Ways Religion Can Influence Political Beliefs

Sometimes religion leads to more political involvement, sometimes none at all; other times political involvement...

April 2013

April 16, 2013

Rewriting the script: We change our religious memories

Focusing on religious identity, psychologists R. David Hayward (University of Michigan), Joanna Maselko (Duke University...

March 2013

March 01, 2013

Does God accept the real you?

Psychologists Bart Soenens (Ghent University, Belgium) applied the study of interpersonal relationships to religiosity and...

February 2013

February 22, 2013

Rise in elder Korean suicides: A reminder that religion matters

The New York Times reports that South Korea's rise in suicides among the elderly may...

September 2012

September 14, 2012

Where does religious doubt come from? The forebrain

Why do we doubt our religious beliefs? New research from the University of Iowa shows...

August 2012

August 07, 2012

Education’s effect on religion

Interested in higher education’s real effect on religion, sociologist Jonathan Hill (Calvin College) found that...

May 2012

May 21, 2012

Seeing a purpose in nature reduces fear of death

Why does religion help people assuage their fear of death? The answer may be more...

March 2012

March 26, 2012

Political views may affect how we pray

Jonathan Morgan On the brink of election season, it's sometimes easy to imagine that liberals...

March 13, 2012

Liberal Buddhism: at the boundaries

Connor Wood In Europe and North America, most religious people are Christian. This means that...

March 10, 2012

Mountains and mysticism

Connor Wood Religions make some pretty outrageous claims. Many traditions assert that angels have visited...