Lauren Sandler of DoubleX, noting statistics from the American Religious Identification Survey, asks why women are more likely to believe…
Why do women believe?
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The evolutionary theory of religion
In today's New York Times, Judith Shulevitz reviews The Faith Instinct: How Religion Evolved and Why It Endures by Nicholas…
The Faith Instinct
The Economist reviews evolutionary biologist Nicholas Wade's The Faith Instinct: How Religion Evolved and Why it Endures.
Shifting drivers of change
Today, contemporary voluntary religion entails a “common-sense” epistemology that in some ways is strangely unaware of its own limits. Today’s…
Who has ‘religion’?
More and more Americans say they have no formal religious affiliation. National surveys, scholarly findings, and media coverage make that…
New poll on Americans’ unorthodox beliefs
Reuters (via FaithWorld) reports on a new Pew Forum poll that reminds us that the spectrum of Americans' spiritual beliefs…
Colonialism and conflict
If the idea of purification is to retain broad currency across the colonial landscape, it may need to be defined…
An absence of belief?
The topic I want to pester Professor Keane about is belief. Christian Moderns uses the missionary encounter on the Indonesian…
Age of spirit: An interview with Harvey Cox
In September, Harvey Cox retired after 44 years of teaching at Harvard Divinity School. Retirement, however, has not slowed him…
Spiritual machines: An interview with John Lardas Modern
John Lardas Modern, an assistant professor of religious studies at Franklin & Marshall College, draws on Beat poets, phrenologists, prison…