: The Ghost-Dance Religion . James Mooney.

‘‘Ghost city”: Religion, urbanization and spatial anxieties in contemporary China

James Dow ( 2008 ) Is Religion an Evolutionary Adaptation ?

Religious people talk about things that cannot be seen, stories that cannot be verified, and beings and forces beyond the ordinary. Perhaps their gods are truly at work, or perhaps in human nature there is an impulse to proclaim religious knowledge. If so, it would have to have arisen by natural selection. It is hard to imagine how natural selection could have produced such an impulse. There is...

Induction The dance of shadows

Statistics stems out from induction. Induction is a long lasting notion in philosophy. The nature of notions in philosophy are such that neither they can be solved completely nor one can leave them forever. One of the most important problem in induction is “the problem of induction”. In this paper we give a short history of induction and discuss some aspects of the problem of induction.  

Religious Experience and the Divisible Self: William James (and Frederic Myers) as Theorist(s) of Religion

Journal of the American Academy of Religion June 2003, Vol. 71, No. 2, pp. 303–326 © 2003 The American Academy of Religion Scholars have understood William James’s unattributed reference to a discovery made in 1886, which he described as “the most important step forward in psychology since [he had] been a student of that science,” as a reference to the British psychical researcher Frederic Myer...

Visual Search of Mooney Faces

Faces spontaneously capture attention. However, which special attributes of a face underlie this effect is unclear. To address this question, we investigate how gist information, specific visual properties and differing amounts of experience with faces affect the time required to detect a face. Three visual search experiments were conducted investigating the rapidness of human observers to dete...