A theory of religion considered "modern" by many scholars was actually described 1,700 years ago, according to new research by Toni Alimi, a Klarman Postdoctoral Fellow in classics and philosophy in the College of Arts and ...
Archaeology
Apr 4, 2023
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For the past few months, religion has never been far from U.S. headlines.
Social Sciences
Sep 22, 2022
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Liz Cooper-Klish said the Bible ultimately led her down the path of becoming an atheist.
Social Sciences
May 30, 2022
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Voyager 1 is the farthest human-made object from Earth. After sweeping by Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, it is now almost 15 billion miles (24 billion kilometers) from Earth in interstellar space. Both Voyager 1 and ...
Space Exploration
May 26, 2022
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Two-thirds of Muslims, half of Jews and more than a third of evangelical Protestant Christians experience workplace discrimination, albeit in different ways, according to a new study from Rice University's Religion and Public ...
Social Sciences
Mar 10, 2022
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Published in the Journal of Religion and Health, a recent study surveyed Christian and irreligious people online at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. It suggests that those with strongly held convictions in their Christian ...
Social Sciences
Aug 5, 2021
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Deep in the West Bank, Israeli settlers have transformed an archaeological site into a biblical tourist attraction that attracts tens of thousands of evangelical Christians each year.
Archaeology
Mar 27, 2019
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Christians' attitudes toward the environment and climate change are shaped by whether they hold a view of humans as having stewardship of the Earth or dominion over the planet, and reading material from religious sources ...
Social Sciences
Mar 7, 2019
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Did you know that the collective noun for bats is a "cloud", or that in the first scientific classification of mammals, bats were placed close to humans because, like us, they have two nipples? The book Bat, by Tessa Laird, ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 7, 2018
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Media and popular culture might portray religion and science as being at odds, but new research from Rice University suggests just the opposite.
Social Sciences
Mar 13, 2015
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