What is the difference between a religion and a cult? “Cult leaders are not elected,” says cult specialist and deprogrammer Rick Alan Ross. “And, I would say that in the United States, the ...

I received a question about religion and spirituality. Even though they are connected in important ways, there are differences. I consider the topic to be important, but difficult because there are ...

My work is at a nexus between evolutionary psychology and the psychology of religion. I often wonder things like why religions evolved different food practices and why they have different religious ...

Some describe religions as only superficially similar, but fundamentally incompatible. Different religions have their unique way of diagnosing human issues and suggesting contrasting remedies. Many ...

Research suggests that parents have a large impact on their children’s religious behaviors. 35 For example, there is considerable overlap between how often teens and their parents attend religious ...

There was a time when the condition of the world we occupy could be attributed solely to natural processes. The advent of civilization has forever altered that world as well as to whom the condition ...