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]]> Sun, 20 Nov 2011 11:46:25 -0700 http://tumblr.machinemachine.net/post/13070580531 The Roots of Religion: Myth, Play and Human Evolution http://www.bigquestionsonline.com/features/the-roots-of-religion Robert Bellah, one of America's most distinguished sociologists, caps off his luminous academic career with "Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age" , a near 800-page magnum opus that delves deep into the roots of humankind's encounter with mystery and the search for meaning. Underwritten in part by funding from the John Templeton Foundation, Bellah's book, out this month from Harvard University Press, has been described as “the most important systematic and historical treatment of religion since Hegel, Durkheim, and Weber. It is a page-turner of a bildungsroman of the human spirit on a truly global… ]]> Wed, 19 Oct 2011 03:17:49 -0700 http://www.bigquestionsonline.com/features/the-roots-of-religion Hate E-mails with Richard Dawkins http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZuowNcuGsc&feature=youtube_gdata ]]> Mon, 29 Nov 2010 03:05:49 -0700 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZuowNcuGsc&feature=youtube_gdata The World Question Center 2010: How is the Internet Changing the Way you Think? http://www.edge.org/q2010/q10_index.html Read any newspaper or magazine and you will notice the many flavors of the one big question that everyone is asking today. Or you can just stay on the page and read recent editions of Edge ... Playwright Richard Foreman asks about the replacement of complex inner density with a new kind of self-evolving under the pressure of information overload and the technology of the "instantly available". Is it a new self? Are we becoming Pancake People — spread wide and thin as we connect with that vast network of information accessed by the mere touch of a button. Technology… ]]> Fri, 08 Jan 2010 10:55:00 -0700 http://www.edge.org/q2010/q10_index.html