A meta-analysis of data from 42 independent samples examining the association of a measure of religious involvement and all-cause mortality is reported. Religious involvement was significantly associated with lower mortality (odds ratio = 1.29; 95% confidence interval: 1.20-1.39), indicating that people high in religious involvement were more likely to be alive at follow-up than people lower in...

Prior research has found that persons who favor more analytic modes of thought are less religious. We propose that individual differences in analytic thought are associated with reduced religious beliefs particularly when analytic thought is measured (hence, primed) first. The current study provides a direct replication of prior evidence that individual differences in analytic thinking are nega...

Introduction. V. S. Solovyov's philosophical views about «realization of a normal society» are considered in clause. Philosophical Solovyov reconstructed the form model religious-natural order context system approach. A characteristic feature is that it can be used to determine specific features (we distinguish from other categories owing attributes order). Prominent opportunity an establishmen...

Quantum bases of consciousness & free will are considered with implications of two cognitive modes of consciousness (direct religious/creative, in quantum-coherent transitional & altered states, & indirect perceptually/rationally mediated, in classically-reduced normal states). Implications for local & global psychosomatics, and religious & transpersonal phenomena, are considered too. Condition...