Organized religions serve many different functions today from running charities and hospitals to generating laws and providing political organization. Yet, most of these complex social functions have ...
Our concept of God has important implications — not only for what kind of abstract theological beliefs we might hold, but also what kind of ethical values we should abide by as believers. (Joel ...
A belief in God may have promoted the evolution of cooperative behaviour, say Canadian psychologists. They found that priming people with religious concepts makes them more generous — regardless of ...
In his first book, Nongbri, a postdoctoral researcher who earned his Ph.D. at Yale, provides a succinct history of the development of the concept of religion. Through detailed analyses of ancient ...
We have, at The Heritage Foundation, established a long-term project to examine the question of whether Islam is compatible with Western notions of liberty. It is exploratory in nature. We hope that ...
Adis Duderija is lecturer in the study of Islam and society at Griffith University. The term Salafism - like jihad - has been absorbed into mainstream Western media discourse, especially with the rise ...
A belief in God may have promoted the evolution of cooperative behaviour, say Canadian psychologists. They found that priming people with religious concepts makes them more generous — regardless of ...
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