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Jonathan Haidt at talks about moral psychology and the misunderstanding of religion at Edge:

In what follows I will take it for granted that religion is a part of the natural world that is appropriately studied by the the methods of science. Whether or not God exists (…), religiosity is an enormously important fact about our species.There must be some combination of evolutionary, developmental, neuropsychological, and anthropological theories that can explain why human religious practices take the various forms that they do, many of which are so similar across cultures and eras.

It’s an excellent article that takes a cutting edge approach to the psychology of religion. Go check it out.

Posted on September 12th, 2007 by Simon Greenhill