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Ideas
DB: "thinks every religion has some truth to it. My Muslim friends are right that Jesus was not the son of god. My Christian friends are right that Mohammed was not god's prohet. My Hindu friends are right that there cannot be one god. My Jewish friends are right that there is certainly no more than one god. My Buddhis...t friends are right that one's conduct should not be affected by the gods. Lots of truths!"

This is World University and School's open, free, editable Religious Studies' 'subject' page - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Religious_Studies. It presently has a significant evolutionary biology focus.

Select Blogs
Koopman, Colin. 2010. requiem for certainty: William James’s Ethics of Faith. April 26. cwkoopman.wordpress.com/

Select Books
Comparative Religious Studies

Smith, Huston. 1989. The Religions of Man. San Francisco, California: HarperCollins.

Evolutionary Biology and Religious Studies

Atran, Scott. 2002. In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion. (illus.). USA: Oxford University Press.

Boyer, Pascal. 2002. Religion Explained: The Human Instincts That Fashion Gods, Spirits and Ancestors. Vintage.

Dawkins, Richard. 2008. The God Delusion. Mariner Books.

Dawkins, Richard. 1976. The Selfish Gene. (2nd ed.). (The meme idea). USA: Oxford University Press.

Dennett, Daniel C. 2007. Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon. Penguin.

Ridley, Matt. 1998. The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation. Penguin.

Wilson, David Sloan. 2002. Darwin's Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society. Chicago, IL: University Of Chicago Press.

History

Ahlstrom, Sydney E. 2004. 1973. A Religious History of the American People. (2nd ed.) New Haven: Yale University Press.

Primatology

Goodall, Jane and Phillip Berman. 2000. Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey. Grand Central Publishing.

King, Barbara J. 2007. Evolving God: A Provocative View on the Origins of Religion. Doubleday Religion.

de Waal, Frans. 2009. Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved. (Edited by Stephen Macedo & Josiah Ober). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Select Libraries
(See also editable World University and School's Library Resources page: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Library_Resources).

Select References
Psychiatry

Vaillant, George Eman. 2008. Positive Emotions, Spirituality and the Practice of Psychiatry. (Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School). 6:1:48-62. Cambridge, MA: Mental Health, Spirituality, Mind.

Religious Texts

The Internet Sacred Text Archive. 2010. The Internet Sacred Text Archive. Santa Cruz, CA: www.sacred-texts.com.

Religious Texts. 2010. Religion - Religious Texts. San Francisco, CA: web.archive.org.

Muahmmad, Ali and Abu Bakr. 2010. Qur'an Explorer.com. Orlando, FL: Quran Explorer.com.

Select Video and Audio
Dawkins, Richard. 2002. An Atheist's Call to Arms. Accessed online video: July 17, 2007. Monterey, CA: Ted Talks.

Dennett, Daniel. 2006. A Secular, Scientific Rebuttal to Pastor Rick Warren. Accessed online video: July 17, 2007. Monterey, CA: Ted Talks.

Rorty, Richard. 2007. Richard Rorty: 1931 – 2007 - One of Rorty's Last Talks - Pragmatism and Morality. Palo Alto, CA: openculture.com

Buddhism

Freshtymer. 2011. The Tibetan Book of the Dead - The Great Liberation.

Select Websites
Buddhism

World Buddhist Directory. 2011. World Buddhist Directory. Buddha.net

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