Religion & Spirituality

Magazine articles on religion and spirituality.

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Reason January 2006 Jeff Taylor	Scare Quotes A Jehovah's Witness publisher's lawsuit highlights the surreal spectacle of a religion trying to stymie the free distribution of its own teachings.
Scientific American January 2006 George Johnson	Getting a Rational Grip on Religion Daniel C. Dennett hopes that his book Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon will end the conviction that details based in religion are off-limits to scientific inquiry.
Geotimes December 2005 Kathryn Hansen	Victory for Evolution in Dover A Pennsylvania judge ruled that the Dover Area School District's science curriculum, which required the presentation of intelligent design -- a religious theory -- as an alternative to evolution, is unconstitutional.
British Heritage January 2006 Allyson Patton	The Quaker Migration: Friends Find Peace in Pennyslvania When the Restoration Parliament enacted the Clarendon Code, its restrictive provisions effectively criminalized the practice of the nonconformist church. In search of tolerance for themselves and others, through the late 1600s thousands of Quakers found a new life in the Delaware Valley.
Reason December 2005 Jesse Walker	Artifact: Dinosaurs vs. Darwin Creationists have been buying roadside dinosaur parks around the country and turning them into anti-evolution museums.
Scientific American December 2005 Michael Shermer	Mr. Skeptic Goes to Esalen A scientist's evaluation of spirituality in the New Age Movement.
Reason November 2005 Nick Gillespie	Remembering Roger Williams What the father of Rhode Island can still teach us about freedom of religion, and the freedom of speech and of the press that follow from it.
Reason November 2005 Kerry Howley	Artifact: A Pogrom for Tea The smashing of a Malaysian cult religion founder's two-story teapot gives the world a startling image of paranoia and intolerance -- evidence that when religious liberty is lost, so too are imagination and whimsy.
Geotimes October 2005 Megan Sever	Evolution Battles Continue The battle over the teaching of evolution in public schools in the United States reached a fervor this week, as a number of prominent scientists testified in an ongoing court trial that pits evolution against intelligent design.
Reason November 2005 Chris Lehmann	Inherit the Baloney In Monkey Business: The True Story of the Scopes Trial, by Marvin Olasky and John Perry, creationists try to settle a score with Darwin.
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