Many religious people deny any conflict between religion and science, but nevertheless report less trust in science than non-religious people. We addr... [more]
As an indirect response to Galen Watts and Sharday Mosurinjohn's Can Critical Religion Play by Its Own Rules? this article aims to explicate what 'c... [more]
Beginning with relativity and quantum theory, the deterministic view that has dominated and shaped Western culture for more than 2,500 years has begun to unravel, leading to the emergence of a new paradigm. This new paradigm effectively reformulates the p
Objective: To review the current developments in the field of preconceptual sex selection and to discuss the cultural and religious perspectives as that accompany the scientific progress. Design: A survey of the major publications in Judaism, Christianity
The seventeenth- century chemist and philosopher Robert Boyle argued that the world is like a clockwork machine. This led to the problems of the place of a Creator and of how one can explain the directed, final-cause nature of organisms. Boyle thought tha
If More had no man or woman under vows of religion among his children, all of whom married before the age of 21, his descendants include several dozen priests, monks, friars and nuns, all forced by the penal laws to live abroad. Among those who added lust
Following the sarin gas attack on Tokyo's subways in March of 1995, considerable effort has been devoted to explaining the rise of Aum Shinrikyo and its turn to violence. This paper aims to provide a contribution to efforts to understand how Aum has been
This article explores the folklore of Istanbul at the end of the nineteenth century, based on two written sources: Folklore de Constantinople (1894) by Emile Henry Carnoy and Jean Nicolaides, and Istanbul Folkloru (1947) by Mehmet Halit Bayri. Focusing on
The impact of hostile and neutral or favorable religious discourse on gay Community strength, as quantified by the efficiency of six types of gay colonization Of public space, was examined in 200 American cities. Baptist and Holiness-Pentecostal membershi
Many religious critics argue that biotechnology (such as cloning, and genetic engineering) intrudes on God's domain, or plays or revolts against God. While some of these criticisms are standard complaints a out human hubris, I argue that some of the rece
Michael Ruse's Darwin and Design: Science, Philosophy, Religion explains the history and philosophical arguments of the design metaphor of evolution. It recounts the historical uses of the metaphor from Plato to twentieth-century American science. Ruse e
Objective: This study examines the association between a self-reported loving relationship with God and the presence of depressed affect. Building on prior clinical and epidemiologic research on religious factors in mental health, it seeks to extend consi
Business people often consider spirituality a means of increasing integrity, motivation and job satisfaction. Yet certain spiritualities are superficial and unstable. Religion gives depth and duration to a spirituality, but may also sew divisiveness. A sp
The burnt sacrifice of bare (defleshed) bones, described in Homer's Odyssey and well documented from Archaic and Classical Greece, is now clearly attested by burnt faunal remains from the 'Palace of Nestor' at Mycenaean Pylos. This evidence is of great
The history of the Black Volta region in what is currently south-west Burkina Faso and north-west Ghana has been marked by the agricultural expansion of Dagara-speaking groups. This article explores how and why these groups were able to expand at the expe
Background. Rhetoric about spirituality and nursing has greatly increased, as scientific-based approaches are not fully able to address many human problems, such as persistent pain. Despite the renewed interest and growing literature on spirituality, ther
The purpose of this mail survey was to examine the relationship of attitudinal and behavioral measures of spirituality to physical and mental health outcomes in a sample of elderly community residents. Frequency of prayer, importance of faith, and relianc