Have White Evangelicals Become More Accepting of Candidates’ Personal Immorality, as New Data Suggests?
In a recent survey, 72 percent of white evangelicals said immorality wasn’t a detriment to being a good public servant.
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Holey Holey Holey: The Problem with a New Study Valuing Religion at $1.2 Trillion Per Year
Does religious activity really account for 7 percent of the U.S. GDP?
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Has Science Proven that Deepak Chopra is Bullshit?
An illustrated guide.
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Religious Kids Are More Selfish: The Stickers Don’t Lie
Are kids from more religious families more or less altruistic than their peers from less-religious families?…
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The Problem with Pew’s Science & Religion Poll
Yes, there are bad questions.
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Lying About Our Religion, And Other Problems With Polling
A review of Robert Wuthnow’s “Inventing American Religion: Polls, Surveys, and the Tenuous Quest for a Nation’s Faith.”
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Is It OK To Use a Cellphone in Church? Pew Surveys the New Etiquette
The Pew Research Center has pubished a new report on cellphone etiquette. If you’ve ever wondered whether…
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White Supremacy, Mental Illness, or Society: What’s to Blame for Religious Violence?
This article is part of It’s Your Fault, The Cubit’s series on blame in contemporary…
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Can Religion Professors Save the Planet?
Prof. Zoloth’s proposal tells us everything we need to know about the malaise poisoning the study of religion.
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Conservatism’s Bulldog Claims Psychology Tilts Liberal
If you haven’t heard of Jonathan Haidt yet, you probably will soon. The social psychologist from the University of Virginia is making quite a media splash. Most recently, he set off a small media storm by calling out his fellow psychologists for unacknowledged liberal bias.
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