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October 2018

October 26, 2018

What Is Religious Studies? Or: No, Grandma, I Am Not Going to Be a Pastor

By trying to rid themselves of theology, religious studies scholars have paradoxically also banished science...

September 2018

September 21, 2018

New Project: Synthesizing Empirical Findings and Theory in the Scientific Study of Religion

There are a lot of fields of study in the modern university. You could major...

June 2018

June 20, 2018

A Cognitive (and Social) View of Ritual

Imagine two scenes. In the first, a person chucks a book casually on a table,...

August 2017

August 30, 2017

Religion and self-regulation: a model (and a trip to Norway)

Last week, I had the good fortune to attend a conference in Norway. For four...

July 2017

July 03, 2017

In the 21st Century, Should We Be Patriotic?

Why be patriotic, since countries are often unfair, unjust, and warlike? Because humans need groups...

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...

February 2017

February 24, 2017

Want to study the science of religion? Start with this MOOC

A science of religion would help us understand some baffling things. Why do otherwise normal...

February 14, 2017

Why colleges need (a few) more conservative professors

Liberals can teach students about the bad side of hierarchy – oppression. Conservatives can teach...

February 23, 2016

No space for God of the gaps

Scientists rudely keep uncovering more and more reasons for mysterious phenomena. That's why the god...

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...

February 2015

February 18, 2015

Is willpower really a finite resource?

Publication bias is rampant in psychology. Has it led us astray with one of the...

April 2013

April 22, 2013

How the brain escapes the self

Research from the University of Missouri shows that reduced functioning in the right parietal cortex...

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...

April 03, 2013

Forgiveness and health: It’s complicated

Researcher Michael McFarland (University of Texas at Austin) and colleagues found that forgiveness positively correlates...

March 2013

March 22, 2013

Psychology and the religion-science conflict: Part 2

Having discovered how everyday people handle the so-called “religion-science” conflict, psychologists Cristine Legare (University of...

March 18, 2013

Psychology and the religion-science conflict: Part 1

Studying the religion-science conflict empirically, psychologists Cristine Legare (University of Texas at Austin) and Aku...

March 01, 2013

Does God accept the real you?

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

January 2013

January 18, 2013

Do you believe in magic? Seriously.

Psychologist Eugene Subbotsky (Lancaster University, United Kingdom) has compiled a series of studies to argue...

December 2012

December 27, 2012

How are religious values passed down through families?

Focusing specifically on how grandmothers pass on their religious values to their granddaughters, psychologists Denise...

November 2012

November 28, 2012

Meditation may enhance introspective accuracy

New research from the University of British Columbia shows that certain styles of meditation may...

May 2012

May 14, 2012

Atheism: a personality profile

Jonathan Morgan For half a decade, the cognitive science of religion has sought the evolutionary...

February 2012

February 16, 2012

Too much science, too little religion: addressing reductionism

Nicholas C. DiDonato Religion is just a by-product of human evolution. Religion is just a...