Posts tagged with ‘The New Sciences of Religion’

An original and compelling scientific interpretation of religion and science that will challenge and delight students and scholars alike.

What does it mean to take a scientific approach to the study of religion? Does a scientific study of...

There is more functional diversity within a great tradition than between great traditions.

Early social theorists on religion all used some version of Marx's base-superstructure model of causation, though they may not...

An excerpt from Chapter 3 of The New Sciences of Religion: Exploring Spirituality from the Outside In and Bottom...

An excerpt from Chapter 4 of The New Sciences of Religion: Exploring Spirituality from the Outside In and Bottom...

A fuller taxonomy of religious experience needs to be developed, detailed, and correlated with different brain states and cognitive...

Recent observational studies indicate a significant, mostly positive connection between religiosity and better health, though it would be difficult...

The most important stories that humans tell, retell, and reframe are the ones people do not generally recognize as...

Today, an informed philosophy of science would also need to talk about information as a metaphysical concept.