Imagine there’s no religion
Imagine there’s no heaven.It’s easy if you try. -John Lennon Actually, it’s not that easy to picture a world without people believing in heaven and […]
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A farewell and reflection on the scientific study of religion
After five years of working for Science on Religion, my time here is at an end. Over these five years, I have reported on a […]
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 […]
Biocultural models of the evolution of religion need to take onboard – The sacral or divine kingship’
Most accounts of the evolutionary origins of religion refer to the shamanistic complex of behaviors as the first set of behaviors that were recognizably – religious’. […]
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 […]