Review: Rethinking Religion
In this groundbreaking book, E. Thomas Lawson and Robert N. McCauley proclaim the birth of the field of cognitive science of religion by presenting a […]
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Bibliography on the Scientific Study of the Left-Right Ideological Spectrum in Politics, Religion, and Morality
This bibliography contains important resources from a wide variety of disciplines that have something to offer to the scientific study of the left-right ideological spectrum […]
Bibliography on Religious and Spiritual Experiences
This bibliography contains important representatives from most aspects of the entire field of the academic study of religious and spiritual experiences. It is far from […]
Book: The Spiritual Brain
Neuroscientist Mario Beauregard’s new book is titled The Spiritual Brain. He advances a case for the existence of the soul. Is it possible to agree […]
No free will? You’re more likely to cheat
Do you reject the idea of free will and believe that your actions are determined? If so, it turns out that you are more likely […]
Religious profile of the US is changing
The religious profile of the United States is changing as Protestants and Catholics shrink in proportion to non-Christian religions and the religiously unaffiliated. Yet people […]
Pew study finds most Americans devout, tolerant
You couldn’t tell from the polarized screaming matches between America’s religious liberals and religious conservatives. A Pew study involving phone interviews of 35,000 randomly selected […]
IN FOCUS: Reliability of religious experiences
William James wrote, “The overcoming of the barriers between the individual and the Absolute is the great mystical achievement.” Richard Dawkins said, “If you’ve had […]
IN FOCUS: The biology of religious experiences
One of the Institute’s research concentrations is on the biology of religious and spiritual experiences. This topic was neglected until a couple of decades ago […]