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Are autistics less religious? Yes.

New research shows that autistics – and men! – may believe less in God because they think less about the world in personal terms.

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Journal articles on scientific study of religion available online this month

Taylor & Francis, the publisher of the journal Religion, Brain & Behavior, is making all articles free online for access and download through the month of February 2013.

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How the brain escapes the self

Research from the University of Missouri shows that reduced functioning in the right parietal cortex is associated with high levels of spirituality – particularly forgiveness.

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The neurology of spirit writing

Are spirit mediums for real? Who knows? But researchers in the US and Brazil have found that, real or not, certain mediums' brains act in some very interesting ways.

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Ritual reduces life’s noise-to-signal ratio

Our world is filled with unspoken social conventions that transform messy, continuous information into clearer, binary data. Ritual is one of them. Anthropologist Roy Rappaport claimed that ritual, the...

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Why Are There Atheists?

Certain aspects of personality orientation may naturally lead some people to religious belief and others to nonbelief; compared with religious believers atheists tend to be less social, more...

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Want to understand religion? You’ve gotta have a body.

Religious experience is something that comes from what bodies do. What goes on in our muscles, our guts, and on the surface of our skin actually matters. If you want to understand religion, or culture,...

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A new theory for why Buddhist meditation makes us feel good

Our brains build up stable patterns of activity over time, and these patterns may inhibit dopamine release - leading to depression and melancholy. Can samatha Buddhist meditation free us from our...

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Hilbert problems in the study of religion

Journal editors at Religion, Brain & Behavior are calling for experts and researchers across religious studies and the cognitive, behavioral, and evolutionary sciences to offer their suggestions...

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Music and Dance in Human Evolution

Humans everywhere play music and dance. But other animals don't — so where did these unique abilities come from? New research provides some suggestions.

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