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Study finds sadomasochism evokes spiritual experiences

January 17, 2017 Joseph Allen 0

Religious devotees endure torturous scenarios for the warm embrace of human connection. Some kneel and stand repeatedly to please their priest and fellow congregants. Others […]

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Ominous moods may improve ritual performance

December 9, 2015 Joseph Allen 0

To the uninitiated, religious ritual seems like frivolous play-acting. Priests and acolytes follow obscure rules and manipulate symbolic objects, similar to team sports like soccer, […]

Review: Rethinking Religion

September 22, 2014 Kate Stockly 0

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 […]

Review: Ritual and Religion in the Making of Humanity

February 6, 2012 Ian Cooley & Josh Hasler 0

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: Religion in Mind

August 2, 2011 Nicholas C. DiDonato 0

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 […]

IN FOCUS: This is not a pipe

April 21, 2011 Patrick McNamara 0

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 […]

Religion is a celebration of excellence: Review of – ‘Born Rich’

August 18, 2010 Patrick McNamara 0

One of the major theories of religion advanced in the 19th century, most particularly by Nietzsche, is that it is fueled by envy, fear, and […]

Biocultural models of the evolution of religion need to take onboard – The sacral or divine kingship’

June 20, 2010 Patrick McNamara 0

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’. […]

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