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Understanding belief

Roland Benabou (Princeton) and Davide Ticchi and Andrea Vindigni (IMT Lucca): Forbidden Fruits: The Political Economy of Science, Religion, and Growth. Carles Salazar (Lleida): Understanding Belief: Some Qualitative Evidence. Paul Rezkalla (St. John’s): Does Cognitive Science of Religion Undermine Religious Belief? From OUP, John G. Stackhouse, author of Need to Know: Vocation as the Heart of Christian Epistemology, on a four-part series on Christian epistemology titled “Radical faith meets radical doubt: a Christian epistemology for skeptics”. Loredana Terec-Vlad (Stefan cel Mare) and Stefan Adrian Andries (Lausanne): The Religious Notion in Epistemology. Istvan Czachesz (Heidelberg): How Can Evolutionary Theory Contribute to Biblical Studies? From LARB, can the Bible survive science? John Walton reviews The Nature of Creation: Examining the Bible and Science by Mark Harris. Alan Lightman reviews Why Science Does Not Disprove God by Amir D. Aczel. Tony Pacyna (Zurich: The Origins of Religion: A Fundamental Epistemological Reference System. Yuval Laor (Tel Aviv): The Religious Ape: Fervor, Love and the Evolution of Religion. John H. Shaver reviews Big Gods: How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict by Ara Norenzayan (and more). Matthew A. Benton and John Hawthorne (Oxford) and Yoaav Isaacs (Princeton): Evil and Evidence. Why take a stance on God? Gary Gutting interviews Keith DeRose, author of The Case for Contextualism: Knowledge, Skepticism, and Context. You can download Groundless Gods: The Theological Prospects of Post-Metaphysical Thought, ed. Hartmut von Sass and Eric E. Hall (2014).