The current issue of Nature includes a report on a new study in Italy about the connections between certain brain…
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Awe and wonder
At Trans/Missions, Diane Winston comments on an unusual and interesting new study, which finds that the most popular New York…
Being with Animals
Anthropologist Barbara J. King, whose previous book Evolving God explored the roots of religion among non-human animals, has a new…
$4.4 million for free will
In line with its professed 2010 funding priority of "Finding Free Will," the John Templeton Foundation has just awarded $4.4…
A more holistic approach to faith and health
In an opinion piece at The Christian Science Monitor, sociologist Wendy Cadge shares findings from her research (with Elaine Howard…
Sacred disorder
At the visually striking Triple Canopy, Nathan Schneider discourses on the devolution of theology into---and, some might say, its eventual…
The study of special experiences: An interview with Ann Taves
Ann Taves is a professor of religious studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara and, this year, is serving…
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.
Scientists who believe in god
David Masci writes about a recent Pew poll, in which scientists registered their views of god.