Scientific Method in Monographs on Religion

Reductionism in the scientific study of religion

A Scientific Definition of Religion by

Religion is a collection of behavior that is only unified in our Western conception of it. It need not have a natural unity. There is no reason to assume, and good reason not to assume, that all religious behavior evolved together at the same time in response to a single shift in the environment. This article does not look at the religion as a unified entity and seek a definition of its essence...

Reflections on the Scientific Method in Medicine

1. Background 1.1. The Approach to a Scientific Method in Clinical Medicine 1.2. How the Current Situation Developed 2. Essential methodological principles 3. Logical and methodological problems of clinical medicine science 4. Suggestions to improve medical scientific methodology 4.1. Creation of an Integrative Medical Scientific Methodology 4.2. Use of a “Recombinant” Hypothesis-Discovery Supp...

On several classes of monographs

A Symposium on Religion : Religion and Society

theoretical expectations. The assumption is that along with modernization and economic development, adherence to religious world views (seen to be a relic of the past) gradually dissipate, as they have in other advanced societies. But they haven’t in the United States. In fact, the importance of religious commitments and religious organizations to American society increased over the last severa...