This paper was first published as ‘A New Immortality? Reflections on Genetics, Human Aging and the Possibility of Unlimited Lifespan’ in Evangelical Review of Theology: Journal of the World Evangelical Fellowship Vol. 23 No 4, (1999) 363-382. It was subsequently awarded a John M Templeton Award for Writing on Science-Religion and was republished in Robert L Herrmann (ed), Expanding Humanity’s V...

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C. Kim-Prieto (ed.), Religion and Spirituality Across Cultures, Cross-Cultural Advancements in Positive Psychology 9, DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-8950-9_9, © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014 Psychologists hotly debate whether religion enhances the subjective well-being (SWB) of individuals and societies. This issue becomes particularly salient considering that a substantial majority (6...

In recent decades, historians of religions have turned to, and developed, entirely new methodologies for the study of religion and human consciousness. Foremost among these are a collection of approaches often termed the “cognitive science of religion” (CSR), typically drawing on cognitive science, neuroscience, linguistics, and contemporary metaphor theory. Although we are still “early” in thi...

Today's mental health system is largely a product of western science. Like a one-eyed giant, it has great power, but it lacks the wisdom which makes life sacred and meaningful. The challenge for today's mental health system is to unite East and West; to integrate wisdom and science; to make room for the sacred as well as the practical. One of the most critical domains for integration-and one of...

the function of religion, is an effect and developments that religion plays in human society. religion has two important functions in the individual domain.  first: increase knowledge, ibn sina believes that only the prophets can come without training as a capacitor of facts. second: soothing, ibn sina belives that  correct ideas are the agent of health.the most important social function of rel...

Science and religion have come into conflict repeatedly throughout history, and one simple reason for this is the two offer competing explanations for many of the same phenomena. We present evidence that the conflict between these two concepts can occur automatically, such that increasing the perceived value of one decreases the automatic evaluation of the other. In Experiment 1, scientific the...