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Homo Religiosus, Religion, and Fertility: A Conversation with Michael Blume
I recently found an excellent blog, Homo religiosus — The Natural History of Religion, written by the German scholar Dr. Michael Blume. After I linked to his blog, Michael came over here for some...
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Triumph of the Texts: Religion as Word
Nearly 5,500 years ago or about 3,500 BCE, the Sumerians began writing about supernatural matters; in a sense, this marks the origin of what most people today understand as “religion.” This...
View ArticleIs Belief in Gods Adaptive?
Over at NPR, Alix Spiegel presents a stimulating piece (which you can listen to or read) that asks: Is Believing in God Evolutionarily Advantageous? It seems to me that framing the question in this way...
View ArticleReligious Knowledge — What Curriculum?
There has been much chatter over the past few weeks about what appears to be a general lack of religious knowledge among Americans. Although I have not seen any surveys or studies from outside the...
View ArticleThe Belief Instinct
In a few days Jesse Bering‘s new book, The Belief Instinct, will be published in the United States. It has already been published in the UK as The God Instinct. The title change seems a bit odd and the...
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Early Complex Societies & Early Organized Religions
Historians have long known that the shelf life of complex societies throughout human history has been rather limited. Archaeologists are aware of this also. But how to explain it? In a recent (open...
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Cloned Neanderthal Religion
Over at the Guardian, Andrew Brown asks if we should clone Neanderthals (assuming it could be done). For me, the easy answer is no. Brown then asks a series of nonsensical questions which imply that...
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