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Imagine there’s no religion

September 14, 2020 Jonathan Morgan 1

Actually, it’s not that easy to picture a world without people believing in heaven and hell, because across history it’s been a pretty rare event. […]

A farewell and reflection on the scientific study of religion

April 29, 2015 Nicholas C. DiDonato 0

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

August 21, 2011 Nicholas C. DiDonato 0

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’

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’. […]

Electrochemical transmission beetween neurons. Digital illustration.

Toward an anatomy of religiosity

November 3, 2009 Derek Michaud 0

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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