Eating people is wrong – but it’s also widespread and sacred
Cannibalism is not uncommon. Humans have long enshrined the consumption of human flesh in sacred...
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Category: Peace & Justice
What every dictator knows: young men are natural fanatics
Young men are particularly liable to become fanatics. Every dictator, every guru, every religious...
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Hierarchy of Suffering: Trauma as Currency in the Resettlement Process
For many, seeking asylum requires repeatedly recounting your story. Conflating persecution with...
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Extreme stress in childhood is toxic to your DNA
Daniel R. Weinberger, Johns Hopkins University The real danger of separating children from parents...
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Power to the People: Civil Society’s Role in Preventing Violent Extremism
UN Photo/Loey Felipe Ahead of the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy’s biennial...
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What did Max Weber mean by the ‘spirit’ of capitalism?
Max Weber’s famous text The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1905) is surely one of...
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To get a grip on altruism, see humans as molecules
‘What is life?’ In 1943, Erwin Schrödinger posed this question in a series of lectures at Trinity...
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How socialism helped to seed the landscape of modern religion
For most people today, socialism is associated with a secular or atheistic worldview. Since the...
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Can reason make room for religion in public life?
Contemporary Western liberals often assume that theological and political worldviews are competing...
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Chocolate has deep cultural and spiritual roots in Mesoamerica where cacao originated. The Mayans...
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Washington Crime Study Shows 23.3% Drop in Violent Crime Trend Due to Meditating Group
Article re-printed from http://www.worldpeacegroup.org/washington_crime_study.html A two-month...
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