Following Conflict, a Turn to the Divine
Study shows that many who experience the trauma of war become increasingly religious.
The Harvard Gazette
Topics: Cooperation Group Conflict Religiosity Religious Groups Ritual Violence
Computer Simulations for Studying Religion
Can computers study complex human phenomena? Wesley Wildman, professor of philosophy, theology, and ethics at the Boston University School of Theology, delves into this question.
The Academic Minute
Topics: Religiosity Scientific Study of Religion
Religion’s Relationship to Happiness, Civic Engagement, and Health Around the World
In the U.S. and other countries, participation in a congregation is a key factor.
Pew Research Center
Topics: Happiness Religiosity
War and Religion
Survey data from Uganda, Sierra Leone, and Tajikistan shows that people with greater exposure to war were more likely to participate in Christian or Muslim religious groups and rituals.
CIFAR
Topics: Religiosity Religious Groups Ritual Violence
Gods Are Everywhere Because It’s Hard to Bargain With Them
The cognitive similarities between institutional life and religion.
Science on Religion
Topics: Cognition Cultural Evolution Evolution of Religion Imagination Religiosity Ritual Scientific Study of Religion
Religious Childhood Linked to Healthier, Happier Adulthood
A study found that people who attended religious services or prayed regularly during their upbringing were happier in early adulthood.
U.S. News & World Report
Topics: Happiness Religiosity Spirituality
The Religious Typology
A new analysis looks at beliefs and behaviors that cut across many religious denominations — important traits that unite people of different faiths, or that divide those of the same religious affiliation.
Topics: Atheism Belief Demography Religiosity Religious Groups Spirituality
Computer Modeling Religion
Recent computer models suggest that religious beliefs are unlikely to disappear anytime soon. What else could computers tell us about this deeply human phenomenon?
Living Lab Radio, WCAI
Topics: Atheism Religiosity Religious Change Scientific Study of Religion
Parents’ Spirituality or Religion Tied to Lower Suicide Risk in Kids
Kids are less likely to think about suicide or attempt to kill themselves if religion or spirituality is important to their parents, a small study suggests. And that is true even if the kids themselves didn’t think religion was important, according to the results published in JAMA Psychiatry.
Reuters
Topics: Belief Coping Religiosity Spirituality
Religion, Belief, and Social Connections
An interview with Jonathan Morgan and Connor Wood.
Sinai and Synapses
Topics: Belief Cognition Cooperation Religiosity Scientific Study of Religion
Why America’s ‘Nones’ Don’t Identify With a Religion
Out of several options included in the survey, the most common reason they give is that they question a lot of religious teachings.
Fact Tank, Pew Research Center
Topics: Atheism Belief Religiosity
Should You Raise Your Kids Religious? Here’s What the Science Says
Does raising your child religious actually make them a better — or happier — person?
Quartz
Topics: Atheism Azim Shariff Morality Religiosity Scientific Study of Religion Will Gervais
Americans Are Far More Religious Than Adults in Other Wealthy Nations
The U.S. remains a robustly religious country and the most devout of all the rich Western democracies.
Topics: Demography Religiosity
The New Happiness Studies
Psychology has dominated the field for decades. But a three-year, $5.1-million project showcases interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, empirical research, with an emphasis on philosophy and an openness toward religion.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Can Artificial Intelligence Predict Religious Violence?
The Modeling Religion Project already spawned several spin-off projects.
The Atlantic
Creating God
An in-depth look at a provocative idea about the origin and purpose of the world’s religions.
Hidden Brain, NPR
Topics: Azim Shariff Belief Cooperation Cultural Evolution Evolution of Religion Faith Religiosity Ritual Trust
Bringing Big Data to Religious History
The Database of Religious History is the world’s first qualitative and quantitative encyclopedia of religious history populated primarily by experts.
UBC
Topics: Religiosity
Differences in Mental Images of Believers and Atheists
Do people spontaneously generate positive mental images of theists and negative mental images of atheists?
Character & Context, Society for Personality and Social Psychology
Topics: Atheism Bias Morality Religiosity Trust Will Gervais
Does Religion Make You Happier?
Some people say religion makes their lives better, but does that mean they’re happier? If you could be happy some other way, would you bother with the religion?
God Forbid, ABC Radio National
Topics: Happiness Martin Seligman Religiosity Roy Baumeister
The Age Gap in Religion Around the World
Young adults tend to be less religious than their elders by several measures; the opposite is rarely true. This pattern holds true across many countries that have different religious, economic, and social profiles.
Topics: Demography Religiosity Religious Change Religious Groups
A Twist in Discussions of Chimpanzee Spirituality
The author of a study discusses findings and possibilities with anthropologist Barbara J. King.
13.7: Cosmos & Culture
Topics: Animal Studies Awe Religiosity Ritual Spirituality Wonder
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