Who Needs God When We've Got Mammon?

Miller-McCune by David Villano | Nov. 29, 2009 (News Report)

"Popular religion," Paul proposes, "is a coping mechanism for the anxieties of a dysfunctional social and economic environment." Paul, who was criticized, mostly on statistical grounds, for a similar study published in 2005, says his new findings lend support to the belief that mass acceptance of popular religion is determined more by environmental influences and less by selective, evolutionary forces, as scholars and philosophers have long debated. Full Story »

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Subjects: Politics, Religion
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Posted by: Posted by Kaizar Campwala - Nov 23, 2009 - 10:09 PM PST
Reviewed by: Kaizar Campwala (review), Fred Gatlin (review), Randy Morrow (review), Priscilla L. Davis (review)
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Edited by: Kaizar Campwala - Nov 29, 2009 - 9:19 AM PST

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Kaizar Campwala
3.8
 by Kaizar Campwala - Nov. 29, 2009

I liked this piece because it's careful in noting the complexity in charting how democracy, religion, and prosperity are intertwined.

Social well-being, economic strength (and happiness) are products of community interaction, not faith, Zuckerman conjectures. More »

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Fred Gatlin
3.3
 by Fred Gatlin - Dec. 1, 2009

I have no doubt about the statistical correlation between secular societies and religion as most understand it. The one point missing is that there are churches and individual Christian who can accept science and still maintain their faith, but journalist focus on those who misuse the bible.

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Randy Morrow
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 by Randy Morrow - Nov. 30, 2009
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Priscilla L. Davis
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 by Priscilla L. Davis - Nov. 30, 2009
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