Education’s effect on religion
Interested in higher education’s real effect on religion, sociologist Jonathan Hill (Calvin College) found that it mildly increases skepticism toward super-empirical beliefs, decreases adherence to...
View ArticleForgiveness and health: It’s complicated
Researcher Michael McFarland (University of Texas at Austin) and colleagues found that forgiveness positively correlates with health over time – but only for African-Americans.
View ArticleNew Project: Synthesizing Empirical Findings and Theory in the Scientific...
There are a lot of fields of study in the modern university. You could major in biology or German literature. You could study philosophy, chemistry, or neuroscience, or delve into Slavic languages. But...
View ArticleWhat Is Religious Studies? Or: No, Grandma, I Am Not Going to Be a Pastor
By trying to rid themselves of theology, religious studies scholars have paradoxically also banished science and scientific explanation rom their studies. Both theology and science, for whatever their...
View ArticleMaybe Modern Liberal Democracy Is a Side Effect of Protestantism
Why do some countries offer more fertile soil for democracy than others? A study in the American Political Science Review shows that Protestant missionaries laid the groundwork for democracy worldwide...
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