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The US Religious Public and Radical Human Enhancements
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A radical enhancement to the human body or brain is defined as giving human capabilities that no past or present human has possessed. These are being developed by scientists and bioengineers and backed by Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. This article reports on the first study of the US religious public's views of radical enhancements using a ...
John H. Evans
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The Oxford Handbook of Atheism
, 2013 Recent books by, among others, Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and Christopher Hitchens have thrust atheism firmly into the popular, media, and academic spotlight.
Bullivant, Stephen
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أسباب الإلحاد عند الشباب في الواقع المعاصر دراسة تحليلية
Al-Mağallah Al-ʿilmiyyaẗ Li Kulliyyaẗ Al-Adāb - Ǧāmiʿaẗ Asyūṭهدفت الدراسة إلى تبيين آثار الإلحاد الوخيمة على شباب الأمة الإسلامية الذين تأثروا بالدول المادية وصدرت لهم أفكار الإلحاد فتأثروا بها ووجدت لها في أنفسهم استعدادًا للإلحاد بسبب مشكلة نفسية أو سوء معاملة اجتماعية أو اقتناع بأفكار الإلحاد ومروجيه، أو بسبب ...
أحمد علي محمد
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Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Religious disbelief is increasing worldwide, yet its cognitive and cultural foundations remain debated. We examined how analytic thinking and cultural learning shape (dis)belief across generations and over time. Study 1 compared younger (18–39, n = 427) and older (40+, n = 639) Polish adults.
Paweł Łowicki +4 more
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ReligionsOver the last couple of decades, philosophers have been drawing on ideas from Wittgenstein’s late work On Certainty in developing an approach to epistemology known as “hinge epistemology.” Hinge epistemology has been of particular interest to ...
Thomas D. Carroll
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Anti-Atheism and Intellectual Change in England, c. 1650–1720: Between Ancients and Moderns
The role of anti-atheism in the transformation of early modern intellectual culture is set in the overlapping contexts of the enduring influence of the classics and their appropriation from Humanism to Enlightenment, on the one hand, and the emergence of
Barducci, Marco
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Revisiting Racialized Religious Contexts and Perceptions of White Discrimination and Privilege
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the relationship between racial composition of religious congregations and individual‐level perceptions of white discrimination and white privilege. Current framings suggest that organizations are racialized not solely because of their composition but also the implicit (or explicit) ideologies expressed within them ...
Jerry Z. Park, Brandon C. Martinez
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Atheist spirituality: a follow on from New Atheism?
Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 2012 Books about well-being, self-improvement, life management and spirituality have been popular for many years. It is not news to anybody that such topics sell.
Teemu Taira
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Medical Education, EarlyView.Abstract Introduction Workplace‐based assessments (WBAs) are central to evaluating clinical performance in clerkships, yet their design and implementation remain challenging. One major challenge is that WBAs inevitably rely on subjective human judgement.
Jelle W. Meerstra +8 more
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Review of The Atheist’s Primer and Atheism for Beginners
Secularism and Nonreligion, 2014 The New Atheists are occasionally accused of lacking nuance and sophistication, or of existing in an intellectual vacuum. To some it may seem that Dawkins 'et al'.
Andrew J Bissette
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