Building Mosques: Realpolitik vs. Constitution
To create goodwill, USAID proposes using American money overseas for religious structures. But will that upset our foundation of church-state separation?
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Religious Affiliation and Brain Shrinkage
New research finds membership in a minority religion seems to hasten a loss of volume of the hippocampal region of the brain.
Passing the Plate and the Peter-Paul Problem
Data from one Catholic parish suggest donations to the general operating funds dip on Sundays when a second collection is held.
Parenting’s Asian-Jewish Connection
The hubbub over the Tiger Mom model presented in a recent best-seller left some recalling the stereotype of the Jewish mother. But what happens when couples are Asian and Jewish?
Death Anxiety Shapes Views on Evolution
New research suggests people reject evolutionary theory because, as a way to think about life and death, it doesn’t provide the emotional solace we seek.
Benefits of Religion Limited to Fervent Believers
New research finds the well-documented link between religiosity and happiness applies only to those whose faith is robust.
Funding Mosques from the State Treasury
Secular European governments give money to Muslim congregations in an effort to defang radicalism imported from foreign sources.
Europe’s Muslims Get to be the Continent’s New Jews
Issues swirling around Europe’s non-assimilation of its Muslim population recall its anti-Semitic past, according to scholar Reza Aslan.
Mixing Europe and the Middle East
It's a long and sorrowful history. But is the new Islamophobia also "anti-Semitism"?
Is Islam ‘Worse’ Than Any Other Religion?
Scholar Reza Aslan discusses anti-Islamic feelings in the U.S. and reflects on how other faiths have faced down feelings of "otherness."