Omnivore - Can You Have Religion Without God?

From Bookforum's Omnivore blog, a collection of links on all things religious - from Satan to Jesus, and from evolution to a religious worldview for secularists. A particularly good read is an article from Scientific American, The Psychological Power of Satan.


Can you have religion without God?

Dec 5 2013
9:00AM

• Taylor Davis (UBC): Group Selection in the Evolution of Religion: Genetic Evolution or Cultural Evolution? 
• Rob Ninowski on the origins of religion: A historical and methodological review. 
• The rise of religion might be all about sex: A study suggests religion might have arisen to protect certain reproductive strategies, like long-term partnership. 
• The introduction to God, Sexuality, and the Self by Sarah Coakley. 
• Andrea Castillo on New Atheism, moral orders, and the psychology of sanctity. 
• David E. Campbell on how it’s social ties — not religion — that makes the faithful give to charity. 
• What good is religion? Sigfried Gold wonders. 
• Can you have religion without God? Moshe Halbertal on Ronald Dworkin and a religious worldview for secularists (and more). 
• Deeper than God: Stanley Fish on Ronald Dworkin’s religious atheism. 
• Isaac Chotiner interviews Richard Dawkins on the Pope, fiction, and why Jews win Nobel Prizes. 
• Scientists try to reconcile Adam and Eve story, whiff — again. 
• What are the odds that Jesus rose from the dead or Moses parted the waves? Even with the best witnesses, vanishingly small. 
• From Vice, was Jesus a Roman hoax to trick the Jews? 
• Piercarlo Valdesolo on the psychological power of Satan: How a belief in “pure evil” shapes people’s thinking. 
• Is secularism unprincipled? Ian Pollock wonders. 
• Billy Sichone on why Bertrand Russell rejected Christianity. 
• London-based “atheist church” launches new congregation in Nashville. 
• Adam Lee on why people are flocking to a new wave of secular communities: Atheist churches.