Religion Dispatches
A new analysis of decades of studies concludes that religious people tend to be less intelligent, while a new book by Eastern Orthodox intellectual David Bentley Hart suggests that “the absolutely convinced atheist” is not an uncompromising intellectual, but rather “someone who has failed to notice something very obvious.”
Read MoreAnatomy of a cross-cultural study.
Read MoreIt doesn’t even measure what it claims to be measuring.
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A new study shows that no matter how strongly a woman’s pastor may rail, a woman will make up her own mind when her pregnancy goes awry or is unplanned. So here’s the common ground: make sure she has the best medical care.
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A new study concludes that the brains of born-again Christians are smaller than those of other affiliations or non-believers. Welcome back to the 19th century.
Read MoreThis week’s The Week in Religion.
Read MoreThe AP goes with the religious right’s preferred number.
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Something is clearly up (or down) with religious affiliation, but reading that data calls for the art for interpretation, not mathematical modeling. That’s what makes this story far more interesting—and far less funny.
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A Brookings study contending that religion didn’t play a central role has a very particular idea of what a “religious issue” actually is.
Read MoreThough results don’t differentiate between the devout and the casually observant.
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