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• Economists: The Magical Priesthood

  

  In this powerful interview with Greek economist Yanis Varoufakis, Philip Pilkington poses the following question: If what you say is true – and I believe the... Read more

  The 04 March 2012 by   Cris
  Culture,  Debate,  History,  Religion

• Big Players in the Discovery of Evolution

  

  Today as part of our evolution week, Into the Wild is going to be looking at those scientists that were instrumental in the formation of the modern theory of... Read more

  The 15 March 2012 by   Frontiergap
  Culture,  History,  Science

• Animism as Altruistic Adaptation

  

  I have a confession to make. I’ve long denigrated claims that what we today call “religion” originated during the Upper Paleolithic because early supernaturalis... Read more

  The 29 March 2012 by   Cris
  Culture,  Debate,  History,  Religion

• Encultured Hallucinations

  

  Hallucinations are a universal feature of human experience. This doesn’t mean that everyone has hallucinated, but everyone is capable of hallucinating. Read more

  The 06 March 2012 by   Cris
  Debate,  Religion

• The Faith Worm Turns

  

  In this interview with the German writer Martin Walser, we get to see someone struggling with faith, existence, meaning, and history: Once you have awakened to... Read more

  The 14 March 2012 by   Cris
  Culture,  Debate,  History,  Religion

• Adaptive Mormon Revelations

  

  One of my favorite books on Mormon history, much despised by Mormons, is Fawn Brodie’s No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith. Brodie writes with... Read more

  The 23 March 2012 by   Cris
  Culture,  Debate,  History,  Religion

• Olcott’s Construction of Buddhism

  

  Over at The Smart Set, Stefany Ann Golberg has posted a nice piece on Henry Steel Olcott, an American civil war colonel and champion of Sinhalese Buddhism. Read more

  The 16 March 2012 by   Cris
  Culture,  Debate,  History,  Religion

• Eve of Economics

  

  This provocative Spiegel interview with Czech moral economist Tomas Sedlacek nicely dovetails with the conversation surrounding David Graeber’s work on debt. Read more

  The 27 March 2012 by   Cris
  Culture,  Debate,  History,  Religion

• Tilting at Free-Will Mills

  

  I’ve never quite understood why some New Atheists think it so important to resolve the issue of free will, or why they think it so important to deny free will. Read more

  The 22 March 2012 by   Cris
  Culture,  Debate,  History,  Religion

• Meditations on Mortality

  

  At the start of my anthropology of religion course, I ask students to “explain” religion: Why do you think it exists? What do you think it does? Read more

  The 01 March 2012 by   Cris
  Culture,  Debate,  History,  Religion