Introduction Ken Wilber has been much acclaimed by those who believe that he has constructed an ideological system in which science, religion, politics, and the arts are harmonized meaningfully for contemporary man. Seen through the lens of the “perennial philosophy,” however, Wilber’s system does not hold together since its material is the result of mixing traditional with secular knowledge. F...

The decline in religious identification and corresponding increase in the unaffiliated has been one of the most important religious changes in the United Kingdom (UK). The emergence of the “religious nones” is the most obvious sign of continuing secularization and the declining social and cultural relevance of religion. Yet while the religiously-unaffiliated often form the plurality — if not so...

A spectre is haunting biology in America the spectre of Creationism. We scientists believed that this religious intruder had been fatally wounded in the aftermath of the Scopes trial. Sharing the ’fifties prestige of science with Our Friend, the Atom, the biology profession had, so we thought, nailed its coffin shut. But now, risen, garbed in the raiment of Intelligent Design, this poltergeist ...

We present two studies aimed at resolving experimentally whether religion increases prosocial behavior in the anonymous dictator game. Subjects allocated more money to anonymous strangers when God concepts were implicitly activated than when neutral or no concepts were activated. This effect was at least as large as that obtained when concepts associated with secular moral institutions were pri...

The article is dedicated to identifying the key features of influence religious factor on world politics in light traditional science international relations ignoring religion and defending position separation “secular” “spiritual” studies relations.

This paper explores the rites of passage rituals as loci health outcomes. It highlights how religiously sanctioned practices play a central role in healthcare defiance perceived private and public dichotomy that dominates modern secular mindset. Highlighted chapter are African passage, specifically breast “ironing”, female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C), child marriage. Drawing from finding...