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2014-12-14T19:17:30-05:00

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How criminals use religion to justify their crimes

Last updated on: December 14, 2014 at 7:17 pm By Nicholas Didonato

Research by criminologists Volkan Topalli, Timothy Brezina, and Mindy Bernhardt (all Georgetown State University) suggests that criminals take advantage of religious beliefs in order to justify their ongoing criminal behavior. Read more

Modern culture and religion

Response to Connor Wood: “Evolved” and “Rational” Aren’t the Same Thing

Last updated on: May 26, 2013 at 8:30 pm By Nicholas Didonato

Nicholas C. DiDonato On this blog, my esteemed colleague and friend Connor Wood recently wrote a defense of the Templeton Foundation that centered on a defense of the study of “religion” (a word I wished he would have defined). While I agree with 90% of what he argued, the remaining ten percent troubles me. More specifically, I strongly disagree with his statement that, “refusing to engage religion… is an apparently rational decision that betrays a woeful misunderstanding of the delicate,... Read more

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2014-09-15T19:10:38-04:00

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Why the Templeton Foundation Is a Darn Good Thing

Last updated on: September 15, 2014 at 7:10 pm By Connor Wood

Physicist Sean Carroll recently made a splash across the Internet by proclaiming that he'll never accept funding from the John Templeton Foundation, since taking religion seriously would lessen the credibility of science. Here's why he's wrong – and why I'm glad he's not competing for Templeton funding. Read more

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2013-05-14T18:19:21-04:00

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Earn $63,628 worth of happiness: pray

Last updated on: May 14, 2013 at 6:19 pm By Nicholas Didonato

Timothy Tyler Brown (University of California, Berkeley) investigated the value happiness prayer yields for the average individual per year in dollars, and found that the answer is...$63,628. Read more

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2013-05-23T17:15:18-04:00

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Exploring your religion

Last updated on: May 23, 2013 at 5:15 pm By Connor Wood

Check out ExploringMyReligion.org to learn how your religious beliefs and commitments shape up against orthodox, progressive, and other kinds of belief styles and orientations. Read more

Ideology and religion

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2014-12-14T19:18:15-05:00

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Does religious belief make you a better person?

Last updated on: December 14, 2014 at 7:18 pm By Guest Contributor

A new survey of the literature on religion and helping behavior calls into question the usual assumption that religion encourages prosociality. Read more

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How the brain escapes the self

Last updated on: April 22, 2013 at 10:38 pm By Connor Wood

Research from the University of Missouri shows that reduced functioning in the right parietal cortex is associated with high levels of spirituality – particularly forgiveness. Read more

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2013-04-16T21:36:50-04:00

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Rewriting the script: We change our religious memories

Last updated on: April 16, 2013 at 9:36 pm By Nicholas Didonato

Focusing on religious identity, psychologists R. David Hayward (University of Michigan), Joanna Maselko (Duke University Medical Center), and Keith G. Meador (Vanderbilt University Medical Center) found that people accurately remember their childhood religious behavior but alter their childhood religious identity so that it matches their present religious identity. Read more

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2013-04-11T19:28:03-04:00

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Religion, Ideology, and Environmentalism: A Tale of Morals

Last updated on: April 11, 2013 at 7:28 pm By Connor Wood

I believe the study of religion and ritual in human cultures argues compellingly for the importance of an interactive morality, one that prioritizes the concrete and particular life of communities and their relationships. This kind of morality is closer to that encouraged by our evolutionary heritage, which demanded constant, daily investment in relationships as the basic currency of survival.…At the same time, this interactive morality, on its own, is also no longer enough. Read more

2013-04-03T21:42:07-04:00

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Forgiveness and health: It’s complicated

Last updated on: April 3, 2013 at 9:42 pm By Nicholas Didonato

Researcher Michael McFarland (University of Texas at Austin) and colleagues found that forgiveness positively correlates with health over time – but only for African-Americans. Read more

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