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According to our 32-year longitudinal study of first year science students, belief in creationism has declined over time.
Many believe their morality comes from their religion. But evidence suggests that people’s opinion of what God thinks is actually what they believe is right and wrong, not the other way around.
Different cultural groups respond with numerous, often conflicting, answers to questions about life after death. An expert explains the Christian idea of heaven.
The television presenter and the scientist are having an argument about God on Twitter, and Morgan is getting a lot of stick. That’s not fair.
Most religions have a fundamental belief that all human life belongs to God.
Churches started to use ashes early as the ninth century as a symbol of repentance. In 1091, Pope Urban II ritualized their use to mark the beginning of Lent. Today, churches provide ‘ashes to go.’
Valentine’s Day originated as a feast to celebrate the decapitation of a third-century Christian martyr, or perhaps two. It took a gruesome path to becoming a romantic holiday.
The inn, the shepherds, angels and animals: pretty much everything we think we know about the Christmas story is historically wrong.
If you’re a non-believer, then staying away from Church may be the best thing for your psychological health this Christmas.
In his new book, Philip Pullman, once again tackles religion as an oppressive institution. On another level, he continues the quest for explaining human consciousness.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu is first and foremost, a spiritual leader, a man of deep prayer. This motivated his participation in supporting South Africa’s liberation struggle.
Many religions see natural disasters as divine punishment. But, a scholar argues, it’s not that simple.
The founder of Islam, Muhammad, saw himself as the last in a line of prophets that reached back through Jesus to Moses, Abraham and Noah. But while the three religions worship the same God, he divides as much as he unites.
There remain many mysteries that are beyond science. Does that mean that a God truly exists? A scholar gives reasons for this possibility.
Digital fasting during Lent has become popular. Technology, in fact, can be good for religion.
Americans are increasingly choosing not to identify with any religious tradition. But this group of irreligious people is a complex one – with different relationships to religion.
The film is a powerful reworking of the novel by Japanese novelist Endō Shūsaku.
Jesus wasn’t the only son of a god in ancient times. And, as you’d expect, divine offspring tended to be high achievers.
No other nation has conjoined business success and piety quite like America has. Is Donald Trump’s election a strange perversion of this tradition?
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Director of the Wesley Centre for Theology, Ethics, and Public Policy & Associate Professor, New Testament, Pilgrim Theological College, University of Divinity
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Emeritus Professor in the History of Religious Thought, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Religious Studies, College of the Holy Cross
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Professor and Chair of History Department, Colorado State University
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Senior Lecturer in Biblical and Religious Studies, University of Sheffield
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President, Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Texas State University
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Professor of Planetary and Space Sciences, The Open University
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Visiting Research Fellow University of Chester, University of Chester
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Adjunct professor, University of Technology Sydney
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Assistant Professor of German, Cinema and Media Arts, Vanderbilt University
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Professor of Philosophy and Intellectual History, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Professor Emerita of Religious Studies, College of the Holy Cross
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Senior Research Fellow, Muslim Philanthropy Initiative at IUPUI and Journalist-fellow, Religion and Civic Culture Center, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Professor of Psychology, Royal Holloway University of London
