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Islamic Pluralism: Learning to Live With Deep Differences in Religiously Polarized Contexts

Religion, Family Structure and the Origins of Individual Freedom and Economic Prosperity

Stepping Up! Building Stronger Relationships among Youth and Parents to Increase Family Planning Use in Western Kenya

The Effective Paradigm: From Gauge Symmetry to the Equivalence Principle

Preaching with the Sciences: An imaginative approach to Roman Catholic Homiletics

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RELIGION, SCIENCE, AND PHILOSOPHY IN BRAZIL

Openings for dialogue where the secular academy meets the skeptical church South America’s largest country is in the midst of a decades-long religious transformation. Although Catholics represent the majority of Brazil’s 210 million citizens, since 1980 the percentage of Protestants — led by explosive growth in evangelical and neo-pentecostal churches — has more than quadrupled. Some demographers predict that Catholics will be in the minority within a decade. Meanwhile, the country’s public institutions maintain a tradition of secularism rooted in the Enlightenment and in the 19th-century birth of the social sciences. (The country’s flag famously bears the words of the…

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Can We Know God? New Insights From Religious Epistemology

Are religious beliefs rational? Is knowledge of God even possible? Are the evils we observe in the world evidence against God’s existence? Since the late twentieth century, epistemological questions of this nature have been central to the philosophy of religion. The work of two leading theistic philosophers, Alvin Plantiga and Richard Swinburne, divided the field of research into two distinct research programs. Broadly speaking, the debates between the two camps are representative of two larger positions in epistemology: internalism, according to which the rationality of beliefs is only determined by factors internally accessible to the believer; and externalists, according to…

Explore the Science of Forgiveness

During the late 1990s, in the aftermath of the fall of Communism, Nelson Mandela’s election in South Africa, and an easing of the conflict in Northern Ireland, the world faced a new era in which former enemies tried to work with each other. Forgiveness took on new significance beyond religion, with which it had often been associated. The John Templeton Foundation issued a call for proposals that resulted in 20 funded grants, establishment of the non-profit organization, A Campaign for Forgiveness Research, which funded eight additional grants, and a total of almost $10 million put toward research on forgiveness. By…