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2013-02-06T00:03:54-05:00

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Religion the opiate of the poor?

Last updated on: February 6, 2013 at 12:03 am By Nicholas Didonato

Research by political scientists Frederick Solt, Philip Habel, and J. Tobin Grant (all Southern Illinois University) suggests that greater economic inequality correlates with greater religiosity, a correlation which they argue stems from the rich using religion to discourage wealth redistribution. Read more

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2013-01-25T13:18:02-05:00

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Prisoners who attend religious services have fewer disciplinary problems

Last updated on: January 25, 2013 at 1:18 pm By Nicholas Didonato

University of Alabama criminologist Kent Kerley argues that frequent attendance at religious services while incarcerated predicts reduced prison deviance. Read more

Modern culture and religion

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2013-01-18T17:28:02-05:00

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Do you believe in magic? Seriously.

Last updated on: January 18, 2013 at 5:28 pm By Nicholas Didonato

Psychologist Eugene Subbotsky (Lancaster University, United Kingdom) has compiled a series of studies to argue that belief in magic begins in the consciousness of children (who explicitly accept it) and then persists by living in the subconscious of adults (who explicitly deny it). Read more

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2013-08-07T16:11:21-04:00

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Interview: Michael Ruse on Evolution, Creationism, and Religion

Last updated on: August 7, 2013 at 4:11 pm By Guest Contributor

Daniel Ansted, contributor to ScienceOnReligion.org, recently conducted an interview with his former mentor and well-known philosopher Michael Ruse. Read more

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How are religious values passed down through families?

Last updated on: December 14, 2014 at 7:19 pm By Nicholas Didonato

Focusing specifically on how grandmothers pass on their religious values to their granddaughters, psychologists Denise Lewis, Desiree Seponski, and Thomas Camp studied how beliefs are transmitted down family lines. Read more

Modern culture and religion

Europeans increasingly drawn to the occult

Last updated on: December 20, 2012 at 3:55 pm By Nicholas Didonato

The U.S. is backwards and religious, while Europe is filled with enlightened atheists. Right? Not so fast – according to ethnologist Sabine Doering-Manteuffel (University of Augsburg ), Europeans are increasingly interested in occult practices such as astrology, past-life regression, and fortune-telling. Read more

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2013-08-06T19:07:09-04:00

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Why atheist scientists bring their children to church

Last updated on: August 6, 2013 at 7:07 pm By Nicholas Didonato

Sociologists Elaine Ecklund and Kristen Lee found that some atheist scientists bring their children to church because they want to give their children religious choice, have a religious spouse, or think that religious communities will give their children moral bearings and community. Read more

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Meditation may enhance introspective accuracy

Last updated on: November 28, 2012 at 12:06 pm By Connor Wood

New research from the University of British Columbia shows that certain styles of meditation may increase the accuracy of subjection impressions and reports about the body, raising new questions about the use of first-person data in science. Read more

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2012-11-26T15:06:16-05:00

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Fraud may be rampant in science

Last updated on: November 26, 2012 at 3:06 pm By Nicholas Didonato

Medical experts Ferric Fanga, (University of Washington School of Medicine), R. Steenc (Medical Communications Consultants), and Arturo Casadevall (Albert Einstein College of Medicine) discovered that 67.4% of biomedical and life-science journal retractions were due to misconduct, that is, deliberate number-fudging. Read more

2012-11-08T10:58:35-05:00

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Supernatural agents influence our social strategies

Last updated on: November 8, 2012 at 10:58 am By Guest Contributor

Ever get the feeling you're not alone even when there's no one around? Researchers from the University of Connecticut and Arizona State argue that our tendency to sense eerie presences is an important part of normal social living. Read more

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