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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 prophet. 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 Buddhist 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, as well as an atheistic one.



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Publish my article in a WUaS academic journal in this subject
Open Journal Systems. 2012. Open Journal Systems. Public Knowledge Project.

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Select Book Reviews
Oppenheimer, Mark. 2011. A 'Good Book,' Absent God. April 15. New York, NY: The New York Times.

Select Books
Grayling, A.C. 2011. The Good Book: A Humanist Bible. New York, NY: Walker & Company.

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.

Bellah, Robert N. 2011. Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age. Cambridge, MA: Harvard 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.

Harris, Sam. 2010. The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values. Free Press.

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.

Feminism

Ruether, Rosemary. 1983. Sexism and God-Talk: Toward a Feminist Theology. Boston, MA: Beacon 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.

Sociology of Religion

Hamilton, Malcolm. 2001. The Sociology of Religion. (2nd ed). Routledge.

Weber, Max, (and Ephraim Fischoff Translator). 1993 (1920). The Sociology of Religion. Beacon Press.

Wilson, Bryan. 1981. Religion in Sociological Perspective. Oxford University Press.

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Antony, Louise M. 2011. Good Minus God. December 18. New York, NY: opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com.

bs0d3. 2012. Filesharing Now an Official Religion In Sweden. January 4. idle.slashdot.org.

Ford, Zack. 2011. VOTERS SHOW DISCOMFORT SUPPORTING RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY. November 9. thinkprogress.org.

Gutting, Gary. 2011. Beyond ‘New Atheism’. September 14. New York, NY: The New York Times.

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

Lattin, Don. 2013. Defining the Indefinable. March 20. Spirituality and Health.

Mercer, Mark. 2012. Celebrating Christmas without religion. December 10. Ottawa, Canada: Ottawa Citizen.

Religion and the Founding of the American Republic. 2010. I. America as a Religious Refuge:: The Seventeenth Century. Washington, DC: Library of Congress.

Soulskill. 2012. Ask Richard Dawkins About Evolution, Religion, and Science Education. October 18. interviews.slashdot.org.

TXBlue08. 2013. Why I Raise My Children Without God. January 14. ireport.cnn.com.

Wood, James. 2011. Is That All There Is?: Secularism and its discontents. New York, NY: The New York Times.

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.

Krishnan, Narayanan. 2010. (InSPiRaTiONaL ViDeO) Narayanan Krishnan - A Companion To The Forgotten. Youtube.com.

Moyers, Bill. 2012. Bill Moyers Essay: Freedom of and From Religion. February 16. New York, NY: Bill Moyers and Company.

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

de Waal, Frans. 2011. Frans de Waal: Moral behavior in animals. November. TED Talk.

Buddhism

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

Woodford Festival 2007-08 Buddhist Monks. 2008. Woodford Festival 2007-08 Buddhist Monks. Youtube.com.

Information Technology and Religion

Robles-Anderson, Erica. 2012. Mediated Congregation - Architecting The Crystal Cathedral. Cambridge, MA: Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School.

Select Websites
Buddhism

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

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