Introduction The word “religion” usually brings to mind complicated belief systems, rituals, and symbolic engagements with a higher reality – all of which seem well beyond the capabilities of animals less intellectually advanced than humans. However, “religion” may not be…
CMAC Research Associate F. LeRon Shults recently published Practicing Safe Sects: Religious Reproduction in Scientific and Philosophical Perspective. The book is now open access and anyone can download it for free! Shults’ book addresses how conceptions of supernatural agents arise…
In April 2011, the first issue of Religion, Brain & Behavior was published by Taylor & Francis, adorned then as today with William Blake’s “Web of Religion”. The journal provides “a vehicle for the advancement of current biological approaches to understanding religion…
This is the 3rd in our series, “Can We Trust Psychology?” Part 1: What is the replication crisis and why did it happen?Part 2: The Beauty of a Theoretical MessPart 4: Pscyhology has a Theory Problem I’ve been talking about the replication crisis…
This is the 2nd in our series, “Can We Trust Psychology?” Part 1: What is the replication crisis and why did it happen?Part 3: The Social Side of PsychologyPart 4: Pscyhology has a Theory Problem The last post was a…
This is the 1st in our series, “Can We Trust Psychology?” Part 2: The Beauty of a Theoretical MessPart 3: The Social Side of PsychologyPart 4: Pscyhology has a Theory Problem If you haven’t already heard – there’s a replication…