Brian Leiter: Why Tolerate Religion?

Why Tolerate Conscience?

In Why Tolerate Religion?, Brian Leiter argues against the special legal status of religion, claiming that religion should not be the only ground for exemptions to the law and that this form of protection should be, in principle, available for the claims of secular conscience as well. However, in the last chapter of his book, he objects to a universal regime of exemptions for both religious and...

Turning Down the Volume: Why Some Genes Tolerate Less Noise

Why Managers Tolerate Workarounds - The Role of Information Systems

Workarounds are deviations from defined routines in business processes and challenge standardization and thus the performance improvements expected from information systems. Researchers study the phenomena of workarounds across different domains and industries with varying conclusions. Literature associates workarounds predominantly with performance losses, facades of compliance, or inferior pr...

PERSPECTIVE - How Does Religion Matter and Why? Religion and the Organizational Sciences

The religion paradox: if religion makes people happy, why are so many dropping out?

As we estimate here, 68% of human beings--4.6 billion people--would say that religion is important in their daily lives. Past studies have found that the religious, on average, have higher subjective well-being (SWB). Yet, people are rapidly leaving organized religion in economically developed nations where religious freedom is high. Why would people leave religion if it enhances their happines...