Modeling Religious Change (MRC) is a multi-million-dollar project dedicated to advancing our understanding of religious and nonreligious identity and change by developing a tool for scholars and policy makers to explore demographic[…]
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Category: Modeling Religion
CMAC’s Modeling Religion Project generates insights into religious social dynamics using computational modeling and simulation.
Religious Ritual, Violence, and Anxiety: An Agent-Based Model
Does religion play a causal role in promoting anxiety between groups? In a recent paper published in the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, CMAC researchers collaborated with the[…]
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New Publication: A Generative Model of the Mutual Escalation of Anxiety Between Religious Groups
Research Associate LeRon Shults, Research Associate Ross Gore, Executive Director Wesley J. Wildman, Collaborating Specialist Christopher Lynch, Post-Doctoral Fellow Justin E. Lane, and Collaborating Specialist Monica Toft Journal of Artificial[…]
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New Publication: Why Do the Godless Prosper?
Research Associate LeRon Shults and Ross Gore, Collaborating Specialist Carlos Lemos and Executive Director Wesley Wildman Psychology of Religion and Spirituality Volume 10 Issue 3 August 2018 Abstract: This article offers[…]
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A Letter from Our Executive Director on the Conclusion of MRP
Dear Friends, June 30th, 2018 is the final day of the Modeling Religion Project. I’m writing to thank you for joining me on this amazing journey. At the Center for[…]
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Presentation: The Birth of Transcendence
Research Associate LeRon Shults Seventh International Conference of the Institute for American Religious and Philosophical Thought: Evolution and Transcendence June 20, 2018 Conference Summary: The theme of the 2018 IARPT conference[…]
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Religion is Uniquely Human, but Computer Simulations May Help us Understand Religious Behavior
CMAC’s Executive Director Dr. Wesley J. Wildman wrote the following article for The Conversation, summarizing some of the findings of the Modeling Religion Project. It is reprinted below with permission.[…]
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