Ethical Problems of Religious Expertise and New Religious Movements

Religious Belief, Scientific Expertise, and Folk Ecology∗

In the United States, lay-adults with a range of educational backgrounds often conceptualize species change within a non-Darwinian adaptationist framework, or reject such ideas altogether, opting instead for creationist accounts in which species are viewed as immutable. In this study, such findings were investigated further by examining the relationship between religious belief, scientific expe...

Genetic therapy: ethical and religious reflections.

Human Cloning: Religious and Ethical Issues

Destructiveness as a Disfunction of Religious Identity: A Comment on the Methodology of Research into New Religious Movements

In the article, the problem of new religious movements (NRM) is regarded as a a specific form of modern religiosity, shaped under the influence of the deconstruction of traditional religious normative conventions. The special attention is paid to the identification processes, influenced by NRMs, particularly to such controversial aspects as its destructive potential for the human personality. A...

The role of testimony in the evaluation of religious expertise