Toward an anatomy of religiosity
While media excitement about the supposed discovery of a single “God module” in the brain has rightly followed scientific consensus and cooled off considerably, the […]
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V.V. Raman’s Truth and Tension in Science and Religion
Professor emeritus Raman deals with the title theme in 10 chapters: Introduction, On science and religion, Epistemological aspects, Explanatory dimensions, Belief systems and God, Spiritual […]
The neural basis of belief
Even the most sympathetic observer has to admit that religious beliefs are often very strange. Indeed, while nearly all agree that Santa Claus does not […]
Why the big feud between religion and evolution, anyway?
This year marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin, the bushy-bearded biologist known for being the first to articulate the theory of […]
How do we make moral choices?
Most of us don’t often reflect on the machinery of our moral reasoning. When we do think about it, we may fall back on this […]
Brain networks linked to religious cognition
Are religious beliefs fundamentally different, or are they simply the result of cognitive systems built for interactions with other human beings projected onto a supposed […]
Religious views on evolution more diverse than usually thought
Religion and evolution are in fundamental conflict with each other, right? Perhaps not, at least not necessarily for many religious traditions such as Hinduism, Buddhism, […]
IN FOCUS: Religion, gender, and age
Recent polls conducted by the Gallup Organization (2006) as well as the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life “U.S. Religious Landscape Survey” (2008; hereafter […]
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 […]
Natural religion?
Despite many famous examples of contemporary atheism in the media, and often highly dubious claims of religions, widespread belief continues. Why? In a recent essay […]