Protestant Ethics in Academia

Cloning in Protestant perspective.

Reclaiming academia from post-academia.

I s nanoscience the “first full embodiment of post-academic science”? Have many of the traditional core values of publicly funded university science been eroded to the point where they are now “part of a scientific mythology”? And is it “morally bankrupt” to draw a distinction between ‘pure’ and ‘applied’ science? These claims, which were all made in a recent commentary in Nature Nanotechnology...

Psychoanalytic Theories of Religion in Protestant Contexts

Psychoanalysts since Sigmund Freud have tried to discuss the role of religion in modern societies. Freud himself saw religion as an illusion which had struck neurotics, while Slavoj Žižek viewed it as some sort of “perversion” which functioned in the cycle of law-transgression. In this essay, I dig into these theories to uncover traces of Lutheran interpretations of Paul’s words on the Jewish l...

The Vanishing Protestant Majority

1 Advantages of using the GSS include a) its measurement of Protestants has not changed over the years, b) its high quality (e.g. its high overall response rate and low item non-response on religion), and c) its large sample size (over 43,000 respondents in 1972-2002).

Conflicting protestant views on euthanasia.