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2014-01-13T16:18:22-05:00

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My employer: The Institute for the Bio-Cultural Study of Religion

Last updated on: January 13, 2014 at 4:18 pm By Connor Wood

The Institute for the Bio-Cultural Study of Religion, also known as IBCSR, is an independent research institution. IBCSR researchers make use of a staggering variety of different research tools and methods, drawn from a number of fields, to study religion from biological, cultural, and evolutionary perspectives. Read more

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2014-01-16T12:51:08-05:00

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Does atheism arise from wealth?

Last updated on: January 16, 2014 at 12:51 pm By Connor Wood

is atheism a luxury of the wealthy? Yes. But this isn't simply because the wealthy don’t need the comforts of a posited afterlife. It’s also because materially comfortable people have more energy to expend on negotiating their social worlds. Read more

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Farewell to Ian Barbour

Last updated on: January 4, 2014 at 12:42 pm By Connor Wood

Ian Barbour, the physicist and religious studies scholar who passed away at the end of 2013, showed that we don't have to be tribal in the way we choose what to believe. Read more

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2014-01-05T13:29:33-05:00

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Is religion anthropomorphism?

Last updated on: January 5, 2014 at 1:29 pm By Connor Wood

Anthropologist Stewart Guthrie argues that religion arises from humans' inborn tendency to anthropomorphize the world around us. What does this mean for how we relate to religious claims? Read more

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2013-12-14T11:44:19-05:00

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Inclusive fitness, models, and religious evolution

Last updated on: December 14, 2013 at 11:44 am By Connor Wood

New research in evolutionary theory sheds light on a long-simmering debate in the scientific study of religion. Read more

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2013-12-08T14:46:57-05:00

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Religion, imagination, and secret worlds

Last updated on: December 8, 2013 at 2:46 pm By Connor Wood

Why do religions seem to create such strong communities? Partly, it's because they help people to share secret, imaginative worlds with one another – just like children playing. Does this mean religions are infantile? Hardly – this sort of imaginative play is almost the only thing that CAN make relationships happen. Read more

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2013-12-04T19:09:36-05:00

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We are all teachers. Or at least we should be.

Last updated on: December 4, 2013 at 7:09 pm By Connor Wood

Internet comments and opinion pieces show that we're all pretty impatient with those who disagree with us. But if we as a culture are going to begin to solve our problems, rather than merely sit around feeling superior to those who are trying to solve them badly, we are going to have to forget about just respecting one another. Instead, we are going to have to become teachers. Read more

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2013-11-26T10:48:28-05:00

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Religion makes you prejudiced. God doesn’t.

Last updated on: November 26, 2013 at 10:48 am By Connor Wood

Some kinds of religious priming makes people more prejudiced against minorities. Others seem to make people LESS prejudiced. What gives? New research from the University of Illinois suggests that the difference might be between God and religion. Read more

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2013-11-11T15:04:01-05:00

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What’s the Point of the Humanities? A Response to Pinker and Wieseltier

Last updated on: November 11, 2013 at 3:04 pm By Guest Contributor

Science is sexy, confident, and universally adored—the star quarterback of our intellectual culture. But the glamour of science is largely due to the technological power it produces, and power is not an intrinsic good—it is only good when it is tempered by wisdom and wielded to achieve noble ends. This is why we should value the humanities. Read more

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2013-12-22T19:52:14-05:00

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Russell Brand is wrong about Western religions

Last updated on: December 22, 2013 at 7:52 pm By Connor Wood

What Brand forgets – or, more likely, has never learned, because no one teaches this stuff in school – is that tradition, religion, and culture are humanity’s most basic biological and cultural tools for achieving balanced relationships between and within societies. As linguistic and cultural animals, we require conventions, continuity, and tradition in order not only to make sense of the world, but to to fine-tune all aspects of our relationship to it. Read more

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