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		<title>Five ways religion can influence political beliefs</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/scienceonreligion/2013/06/five-ways-religion-can-influence-political-beliefs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:28:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wanting instead to see how religion can affect political beliefs at the individual level, Ryan LaMothe (St. Meinrad School of Theology) found five ways in which this can happen.]]></description>
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		<title>The neurology of spirit writing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 17:46:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/scienceonreligion/?p=666</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Are spirit mediums for real? Who knows? But researchers in the US and Brazil have found that, real or not, certain mediums' brains act in some very interesting ways.]]></description>
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		<title>Over generations, religion shapes genetics</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jun 2013 15:36:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/scienceonreligion/?p=662</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Research from a multinational team shows that religion has affected the ways that genes are transmitted in the Near East – for more than 2,000 years.]]></description>
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		<title>How criminals use religion to justify their crimes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2013 18:07:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nicholasdidonato</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/scienceonreligion/?p=652</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Research by criminologists Volkan Topalli, Timothy Brezina, and Mindy Bernhardt (all Georgetown State University) suggests that criminals take advantage of religious beliefs in order to justify their ongoing criminal behavior.]]></description>
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		<title>Response to Connor Wood: “Evolved” and “Rational” Aren’t the Same Thing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 May 2013 18:32:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/scienceonreligion/?p=642</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Nicholas C. DiDonato On this blog, my esteemed colleague and friend Connor Wood recently wrote a defense of the Templeton Foundation that centered on a defense of the study of &#8220;religion&#8221; (a word I wished he would have defined). While I agree with 90% of what he argued, the remaining ten percent troubles me. More [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why the Templeton Foundation Is a Darn Good Thing</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/scienceonreligion/2013/05/why-the-templeton-foundation-is-a-darn-good-thing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 18:14:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/scienceonreligion/?p=630</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Physicist Sean Carroll recently made a splash across the Internet by proclaiming that he'll never accept funding from the John Templeton Foundation, since taking religion seriously would lessen the credibility of science. Here's why he's wrong – and why I'm glad he's not competing for Templeton funding.]]></description>
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		<title>Earn $63,628 worth of happiness: pray</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/scienceonreligion/2013/05/earn-63628-worth-of-happiness-pray/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 22:19:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nicholasdidonato</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/scienceonreligion/?p=626</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Timothy Tyler Brown (University of California, Berkeley) investigated the value happiness prayer yields for the average individual per year in dollars, and found that the answer is...$63,628.]]></description>
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		<title>Exploring your religion</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/scienceonreligion/2013/05/exploring-your-religion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 00:05:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/scienceonreligion/?p=614</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Check out ExploringMyReligion.org to learn how your religious beliefs and commitments shape up against orthodox, progressive, and other kinds of belief styles and orientations.]]></description>
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		<title>Does religious belief make you a better person?</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/scienceonreligion/2013/04/does-religious-belief-make-you-a-better-person/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/scienceonreligion/2013/04/does-religious-belief-make-you-a-better-person/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 21:51:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/scienceonreligion/?p=610</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A new survey of the literature on religion and helping behavior calls into question the usual assumption that religion encourages prosociality.]]></description>
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		<title>How the brain escapes the self</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/scienceonreligion/2013/04/how-the-brain-escapes-the-self/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 02:38:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>connorwood</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/scienceonreligion/?p=603</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Research from the University of Missouri shows that reduced functioning in the right parietal cortex is associated with high levels of spirituality – particularly forgiveness.]]></description>
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