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February 2009

February 28, 2009
The next wave of the American Religious Identification Survey (ARIS)will be released on March 9...
February 28, 2009
Michael Persinger is a behavioural scientist at Laurentian University in Canada who is most famous...
February 26, 2009
Just before Christmas, the American Humanist Association ran bus ads with the slogan 'Just be...
February 24, 2009
One of the widely held truths about religious belief is that it helps keep people...
February 22, 2009
The social science of religion has taken off in the past decade or two, after...
February 21, 2009
Suppose you're lost in a strange town and it's late at night and you see...
February 19, 2009
Earthworms tunnel underground to aerate the soil - right? Go on, admit it... you were...
February 17, 2009
The question of nature versus nurture crops up a lot in discussions of religion. Here's...
February 14, 2009
You could make a reasonable case that pencils have a purpose, but pencil shavings just...
February 11, 2009
In the USA, a prominent strand of sociological thought argues that a free market in...
February 10, 2009
Well now. Pleiotropy has tagged me in a blog meme! Here it is:Imagine: YOU are...
February 09, 2009
Religious types are big on communal singing. Aldous Huxley satirised this facet of religious life...
February 07, 2009
The purpose of religion, we are often told, is not to give us factual information...
February 06, 2009
The New Scientist has just posted an article on the psychology of religious belief -...
February 04, 2009
Spirituality is traditionally a part of recovery programmes for substance abusers. Alcoholics Anonymous, for example,...
February 02, 2009
I'd like to offer an alternative analysis of the Theos survey on British attitudes to...
February 01, 2009
According to a survey out today, it's 50%. The survey itself is sponsored by Theos,...
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