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An interesting working paper by the University of Connecticut economists Metin Cosgel and Thomas Miceli looks at a dataset of over 300 governments between 3,700 BC and the 20 th century in order to ...

In a more nuanced way, a number of influential scholars, such as Rodney Stark and Regina Schwartz, have also cast monotheism as particularly intolerant towards the "Other" and thus a fertile ground ...

For 90% of our species’ history, we did not farm, or create large settlements and complex polytheistic religious and political hierarchies. Instead we lived in small, nomadic family based bands, ...

Long established as a leading sociologist of American religion, Stark has in recent years extended his methodology into increasingly speculative territory. Here he follows up his inquiry into the ...

The further back we go in history the more glaringly evident it is that humanity at its most primal stage of development had a proclivity for a plurality of gods and goddesses. Africans, long regarded ...

Jews, Muslims and Christians all have the right to claim historical ties to the Old City of Jerusalem, the head of the UN’s cultural body said Sunday, as the organization postponed until October a ...