Charles Mathewes, of The American Interest, discusses the role of religion in evolutionary theory and analyzes two publications on this…
Evolutionary theory and religion
human evolution
State of the Species
Human beings live in virtual worlds that define what they value, what they aspire to, and what they are able…
Dangerous evolutions?
Religion in Human Evolution is an immensely ambitious book on a topic only a scholar of Robert Bellah’s stature could…
Weber for the 21st century
For almost one hundred years, all sociologists of religion have taken Max Weber’s great work on comparative religions as a primary point…
Where did religion come from?
When an interviewer for the Atlantic Monthly blog asked me “What prompted you to write this book?” I apparently replied,…