A Boston University psychological center will begin extending its work of combining religious and scientific studies after receiving a $500,000 grant from an international competition.

Beliefs about the relationship between religion and science may be a key factor in people's views on mental health conditions like anxiety and depression, especially in minority racial communities, ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Did God make scientists? Most of them don't think so. The first systematic analysis in decades to examine the religious beliefs and practices of elite academics in the sciences ...

This course introduces students to the study of religion by examining religious practices within a variety of cultural and historical contexts around the world. The course invites students to think ...

Sociology can help us see neglected drivers of religious beliefs. But it shouldn’t lose focus on the beliefs themselves. You should read Religion for Realists: Why We All Need the Scientific Study of ...

For the past 20 years, Elaine Howard Ecklund has studied scientists’ attitudes towards religion. What she’s found, through more than 40,000 surveys and nearly 2,500 confidential interviews, is that ...

This graduate symposium analyzes the ancient Hindu breath-centered divination practice known as svarodaya (Sanskrit: “attainment of toned breath”) to untangle a knot of discourses which scholars ...

The conflict between science and religion may have its origins in the structure of our brains, researchers at Case Western Reserve University and Babson College have found. Clashes between the use of ...

Jews and Judaism in America. Department of History, Ohio State University, 1971-1989 Department of Religious Studies, William & Mary, 1989-Visiting Professor at California State University, Northridge ...

Robert Gavlak wrote, in a guest column on Dec. 25, that religion and science don't belong in the same classroom. As a Catholic school teacher with a BA in math and an MA in religious studies, I agree.