Review: Ritual and Religion in the Making of Humanity
As one might expect given the title, Roy Rappaport in Ritual and Religion in the Making of Humanity (Cambridge University Press, 1999) spends a great […]
Review: Saving God
Most professors of religion seem content to stay in their ivory tower. They stand above popular-level religious debates and so have little to do with […]
Review: The Spiritual Doorway in the Brain
It is a pleasure to review a book about the science of spirituality that is refreshingly free of ideological axes to grind. The author of […]
Review: Religion in Mind
Given its penchant for to publishing findings in obscure journals, one can easily miss the profound discoveries in the field of the cognitive study of […]
Religion and personality
Envision the typical religious believer. What personality traits come to mind? For some people, religious people epitomize ignorance, intolerance, and stubbornness; for others, they personify […]
Book review: Science and the Spiritual Quest
Nearly a decade and a half ago, an elite group of scientists gathered in Berkeley, California, to participate in a groundbreaking project called Science and […]
Sufism and mindfulness
“Mind-body medicine,” or the integration of spiritual practices with techniques for healing, is a big topic these days. While many of the practices that go […]
Liberal Buddhism: exploring the boundaries
In Europe and North America, most religious people are Christian. This means that debates between theological liberals and conservatives in these countries are often about […]
How we pray
Most have long recognized that political liberals and conservatives have different outlooks on life. More precisely, research indicates that liberals tend to emphasize provision and […]
IN FOCUS: This is not a pipe
Anyone who has had the pleasure to sit down to a satisfying pipe of flame-cured Virginian tobacco (along with a touch of perique in the […]