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 […]
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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 […]
Dreams and religion
In the many discussions on the new cognitive science of religion, one never hears mention of the relation of dreams to religion. Yet dreams have […]
Religion influences political opinions unconsciously
Should politics and religion mix? Actually, for Americans that might not be the right question to ask. The fact is, religion and politics already do […]