Society and religion were born, the author argues, as “twins.” Though religion as we understand it today arrived late.

In his book Captive Gods: Religion and the Rise of Social Science (Yale Univ., Oct), New York University philosophy professor Kwame Anthony Appiah explores the work of leading sociologists and ...

Will Gervais has received funding from various organizations over the years, including The Leverhulme Trust and the John Templeton Foundation Many atheists consider themselves to be highly rational ...

My work is at a nexus between evolutionary psychology and the psychology of religion. I often wonder things like why religions evolved different food practices and why they have different religious ...

Religious types will try to protect God, saying God is good; and if we humans suffer, it is primarily the outcome of our wrong choices. God wishes us to experience joy and not misery. God is perfect ...

Religious types argue that the idea of free will put in place the imperfection in the universe, as many of us chose evil and rejected God. But the free choice is still more precious than perfection.

Strangely enough, Hinduism is the latest venue for robots and automation — and worshippers as well as religious experts are freaked out by it. While the aarti robots and several others — like a ...