Time magazine declared pop star Taylor Swift as its 2023 person of the year, saying she was chosen "(f)or building a world of her own that made a place for so many, for spinning her story into a ...

Learn why “world religions” is a category constructed by human choice When we think of world religions, we often think of the Big Five: Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism. But why do ...

As students and educators struggle with emergency online instruction and prepare for distance learning in the fall, the Pluralism Project relaunches website CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — As students and ...

Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” In other words, ignorance is dangerous, and education is powerful; ...

School was out — and now it was time for the teachers to be quizzed. More than two dozen Maryland public school educators from Montgomery County furrowed their brows as the questions flashed on the ...

The Department of Religion at Bowdoin engages students in efforts to understand how and why people are religious in various historical and cultural contexts, from a range of academic perspectives, and ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This essay examines the concerns expressed by students when studying a second-year module on Asian religions and how they thought the ...

This post is excerpted from my new book, Triune Brain, Triune Mind, Triune Worldview (Brighton Publishing) What one is taught and chooses to learn about religion changes the biology of the brain.

Hostility toward spiritual traditions may be hampering empirical inquiry. By David DeSteno Dr. DeSteno is a psychologist. Science and religion seem to be getting ever more tribal in their mutual ...

I had the good fortune in graduate school to work with Professor Paul Rozin, who has done more to help us understand the biological, psychological, and cultural influences on our eating behavior than ...