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Who Needs God(s) — Nearly Everyone!

Over at the New Humanist, Tom Rees has posted a nice article asking “Who Needs God?” and “Why is religion on the rise in so many countries?”  The frame for Rees’ commentary is modernization theory,...

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Is 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...

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Religious Studies: A Hot Commodity

Over at Newsweek, Lisa Miller has written an insightful piece on the “Religious Studies Revival.”  For undergraduates thinking about a major (or graduate school), it is a must read.  Miller begins with...

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