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 ANTHROPOS: human sciences
Anthropos deals with various aspects of religion in conversation with the human sciences, including psychology, sociology, and economics of religion.  Not included in this topic are the cognitive neurosciences, see Cogito, or medicine, see Salus.  The word anthropos is Greek for “human”.

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Empathy, Altruism and Agape: Perspectives on Love in Science and Religion    
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"Never Such Innocence Again": A Review of Humanity    
A Clone by Any Other Name, Part 1    
A Clone by Any Other Name, Part 2    
A Fabulous Evolutionary Defense of Dualism    
A Natural Philosophy of Human Suffering    
A Proleptic Vision of the Global Future    
A Review of Doing Without Adam and Eve    
A review of Franz De Waal's "The Ape and the Sushi Master"    
A review of Matt Ridley's Genome: The Autobiography of a Species    
Altruism in Groups: Evolutionary Biological and Psychological Evidence    
An Evolutionary Mind    
Being Mean to Stephen Jay Gould    
Can We Be Awe-Inspired without Thinking Hierarchically?    
Certainty and Self-Deception among American Fundamentalism    
Classics Corner--The Advantages of Varied Knowledge & The Origin    
Competitive Dynamics and Cultural Evolution of Religions and God Concepts: A Field Analysis    
Conscious Evolution and the Emergence of Integral Culture    
Critiquing the Creation of Knowledge in the Liberal Arts: An Interdisciplinary Course on Death    
Disciplinary Realities and Interdisciplinary Prospects    
Disgust, Morality, and Human Identity    
Distributed and Shared Genetic Value    
Dousing the Flames    
Emmanuel Levinas’ Challenge to the Modern European Cultural Identity    
ESSSAT Conference: Barcelona, 1-6 April, 2004    
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Evolutionary Biology & the Meaning of Life    
Evolutionary Reflections on The Great War and the New Millenium    
Feathered Spirits: The Dangers of Adolescence    
Field Analysis of Religion, Spirituality and Human Flourishing    
Five Dimensions of Unlimited Love    
Genes and the Adapted Mind    
Genes, Genesis, and God Discussion    
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Glorious Contingency 3    
Glorious Contingency 4    
Glorious Contingency 5    
God and the Unity of Nations, by Thomas King    
God, Baseball, and Science: An Interview with Mary Doria Russell    
Good and Evil: Reshaping our Moral Universe    
How Girard's Mimetic Theory Can Help Us Understand the Relationship Between Science and Religion, by Britton Johnston    
How the Unconscious Shapes Science    
Human Creativity Considered Critically    
Human Creativity Revisited    
Human Creativity Revisited, Responses    
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Human Creativity: Expanding Complexity and Evolutionary Discontinuities    
Human Origins and Religious Awareness: In Search of Human Uniqueness    
Human Uniqueness and Symbolization    
Humanity and Divinity as Radically Embodied    
Imagination, the Source of Mankind's power    
In ____ We Trust: Science, Religion, and Authority    
Instincts    
Interview with Mary Fengar Gail    
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Interview with Seth Rozin    
Introduction to the Experimental Psychology of Religious    
Introduction to the Experimental Psychology of Religious    
It’s Good to be Good: How Benevolent Emotions and Actions Contribute to Health    
Kenosis and Nature    
Konrad Lorenz, National Socialism, and Epistemology    
Law, Chance, and Opportunity in Nature    
Love Thy Neighbor    
Morality, Disgust and the Territorial Imperative    
Multiplying Non-Zero: Review of Robert Wright's Nonzero    
Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny, Part I    
Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny, Part II    
Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny, Part III    
Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny, Part IV    
Of Which Human Are We Post?    
Philosophy and Sex: Not a Happy Couple    
Possibility Space in Evolution    
Progress Through Love    
Psychology's Love-Hate Relationship with Love: Critiques and Affirmations    
Remembering the Spiritual History of American Philanthropy    
Research Notes: A Non-Dualistic Approach to Altruism and Egoism    
Review of Christian Smith's "Moral Believing Animals"    
Review of David Sloan Wilson's "Darwin's Cathedral"    
Review of Holmes Rolston's "Genes, Genesis, and God"    
Review of Ian McEwan's "Enduring Love"    
Review of John Horgan's Rational Mysticism    
Review of Mark Perakh's "Unintelligent Design," by David J. Turell    
Review of Michael Ruse's "Monad to Man"    
Review of Nicholas Gillham's 2001 biography A Life of Sir Francis Galton: From African Exploration to the Birth of Eugenics.    
Review of Robret Wright's NONZERO    
Review of Sober and Wilson's "Unto Others"    
Review of Susan Blackmore's "The Meme Machine"    
Roll the bones!    
Rolston Redux: In Defense of Sociobiology    
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Rolston Redux: In Defense of Sociobiology    
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Ruse's Darwinian Ethics and Moral Realism    
Science and Religion - of Nuns and Priests, Corporate Governance, and the Social Order    
Science and Religion in Schools: A German and World Wide Perspective    
Science and Religion in Schools:  The Importance of a South African Project    
Science and Religion: A School and Church Project in Denmark 2009    
Science, Religion, and the Bomb    
Selfish Genes and Inclusive Values    
Selfish Genes and Kindly People    
Sit Down Before a Fact as a Little Child    
Skyhooks and Cranes    
Social Darwinism and National Socialism    
Social, Human and Spiritual Capital in Economic Development    
Spiritual Transformation Around the World    
Statement At The Templeton Prize News Conference    
Ten Reasons for the Constructive Engagement of Science and Religion    
The Alpha Factor and Religion    
The Good Samaritan and His Genes    
The Heart of Death: An interview with Pim Van Lommel    
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The Making of a Shaman: A Comparative Study of Inuit, African, and Nepalese Shaman Initiation    
The Meaning of Embodiment    
The Science and Religion Debate: The View from Primary Schools (7 to 11 Years)    
The Singularity of Self in the Later Foucault: Reconsidering the End(s) of Poststructuralist Thought    
The Varieties of Human Experience    
The veil of unpredictability: Our shrouded future vision.    
The Wisdom to Know - Either Oars    
Unlimited Love    
Unlimited Love - Towards a New Human Science    
Unlimited Love and Ultimate Reality    
V. V. Raman's partial defense of my Why Religion Matters    
What an Evolutionary Ethics Fails to Explain    
What is Economic Theology?    
What Lies Beneath:  Two Perspectives on the Human Person in Psychiatric Healing    

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