Long-term meditators know that meditation can change people’s experience of the world, usually for the better. Highly experienced practitioners of meditation often report greater feelings of equanimity, patience, and compassion for others – even at times when they’re not meditating,…
Religion, said Marx, is the “opiate of the masses.” This well-known phrase has come to represent the pacifying impact of religion, especially popular religion, used for the social control (or exploitation) of the majority by the elite. The assurance of heaven…
Do liberals and conservatives really see the world differently? Maybe it’s more like they feel it differently. Recent research (e.g., Tomkins 1995) has suggested that conservatives and liberals experience different sorts of emotional responses. Specifically, some emotions, like joy and…
Religion, Brain & Behavior has a CiteSchore of 3.5, which ranks #2 among 594 Religious Studies journals in SCOPUS. Note: Authors in the list below link to the publisher’s web site for the issue in which the author’s contribution appears. IBCSR…
Metrics for Religion, Brain & Behavior : Impact Factor: 3.6 (2023); Five-Year Impact Factor: 3.8 (2019-2023) Scimago Journal & Country Rank (SJR): 0.764 (2023; #7 out of 635 Religious Studies journals, 99th percentile) CiteSchore: 3.0 (2023; #10 out of 644 Religious Studies journals, 98th…
Religion, Brain & Behavior has a CiteSchore of 3.5, which ranks #2 among 594 Religious Studies journals in SCOPUS. Note: Individual articles in the list below link to the publisher’s web site. IBCSR members who are logged in will see the…
Background to the Fellows Program Young researchers working on IBCSR projects are vital to the future of the scientific study of religion. Their skill set embraces multiple disciplines. They combine the precision of the scientist with the complex awareness of…
Buddhist scholar, B. Alan Wallace’s Contemplative Science: Where Buddhism and Neuroscience Converge (Columbia University Press, 2007) is an attractive read for anyone interested in neuroscience, consciousness, psychology, Buddhism, or religious studies. Educated in the West and having studied under H.H.…
Wednesday, October 14, 2009 The Institute for the Biocultural Study of Religion (IBCSR) announces the publication of the inaugural issue of IBCSR Research Review (IRR). IRR briefly annotates and furnishes online information about scientific research articles related to brain, behavior, culture,…
IBCSR Research Review, October 2012 (download the PDF version here)
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IBCSR Research Review, December 2011 (download the PDF version here)
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IBCSR Research Review, September 2011 (download the PDF version here)