Religion as Sedition: On Liberalism’s Intolerance of Real Religion

A Symposium on Religion : Religion and Society

theoretical expectations. The assumption is that along with modernization and economic development, adherence to religious world views (seen to be a relic of the past) gradually dissipate, as they have in other advanced societies. But they haven’t in the United States. In fact, the importance of religious commitments and religious organizations to American society increased over the last severa...

Religion as a Control Guide: on the Impact of Religion on Cognition

Religions are commonly taken to provide general orientation in leading one’s life. Here, we develop the idea that religions may also have a much more concrete guidance function in providing systematic decision biases in the face of cognitive-control dilemmas. In particular, we assume that the selective reward that religious belief systems provide for rule-conforming behavior induces systematic ...

Untangling the Complex Relationship Between Religion and Intolerance

Religion, Tolerance and Intolerance: Views from Across the Disciplines

Emilio Gentile : Politics as Religion

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