One of the central claims of Norenzayan et al.'s article is that supernatural monitoring and intergroup competition have facilitated the rise of large-scale prosocial religions. Although the authors outline in detail how social instincts that govern supernatural monitoring are honed by cultural evolution and have given rise to Big Gods, they do not provide a clear explanation for the success of...

Supernatural inflation is an attractive model based just on a flat direction with soft SUSY breaking mass terms in the framework of supersymmetry. The beauty of the model is inferred from its name that the model needs no fine-tuning. However, the prediction of the spectral index is ns > ∼ 1, in contrast to experimental data. In this paper, we show that the beauty of supernatural inflation with ...

in this research, the methodology of which is descriptive-inferential, our problem is the role of the unity of divine acts in mulla sadra’s transcendent philosophy and the evaluation of his arguments on it. in this regard, after explaining the concept of “unity of divine acts”, we show that since the boundaries of sadra’s philosophical system approaches speculative mysticism, sadra’s system in ...

THE subject of the church as the Body of Christ in Pauline theology is one which has received a great deal of attention and has produced a wide divergence in views1• As a consequence, this essay cannot hope either to summarize the work done in this area or to enter into detailed debate with the various positions that have been adopted. We shall approach the problem from the perspectives of how ...

Recent research has shown that religious individuals are much more resistant to utilitarian modes of thinking than their less religious counterparts, but the reason for this is not clear. We propose that a meta-ethical belief that morality is rooted in inviolable divine commands (i.e., endorsement of Divine Command Theory) may help explain this finding. We present a novel 20-item scale measurin...