The vigor of religious feelings, and the fact that most, if not all, cultures include a system of spiritual belief, suggest that humans have an innate predisposition towards religiousness. There are several possible adaptive advantages that may help explain such a disposition; religions promote cooperative relations, they induce people to obeysensible rules, and they soothe the minds of their f...

The Letter issued by the Patriarch Dionysius of Constantinople was sent to Novgorod in 1467 and affirmed Gregory Bulgarian as only legal Kiev Metropolitan. It is known two handwritten copies, glued into same Gospel 16th century. research these copies let us ascertain that one them written 1460th had form document, not bookish copy. We can suppose ambassadors this Slavic version with Lithuania. ...

The claim of some NT scholars tha t verba l agreements in the Synoptic Gospels prove literary interdependence among them opens a challenge to investigate those Gospels thoroughly to check the claim’s validity. An inductive investigation of fifty-eight triple-tradition sections in the Burton and Goodspeed Harmony of the Gospels finds that an average of only 16% of the words in the sections are i...

Do fans sanctify their heroes? In the past, I have argued that Elvis fandom is not a neo-religious practice but that attention to a modified version of Durkheim’s theory of religion can, nevertheless, help to explain it as a form of social interaction. I take that argument further here, first by revealing the ethical and analytical advantages of neo-Durkheimian theory, then by pitting this theo...