From the Oxford Handbook of the Abrahamic Religions, here is the entry on Religions of Love: Judaism, Christianity, Islam by David Nirenberg and Leonardo Capezzone. Charles Halton reviews Born Bad: Original Sin and the Making of the Western World by James Boyce. Beliefs about all-knowing, punishing gods — a defining feature of religions ranging from Christianity to Hinduism — may have played a key role in expanding co-operation among far-flung peoples and led to the development of modern-day states. Pierrick Bourrat (Sydney): Supernatural Beliefs and the Evolution of Cooperation. Belief in a deity helps humans cooperate and live in large groups, studies say.
Anthony J. Sadar reviews The Triumph of Faith: Why the World is More Religious than Ever by Rodney Stark. The world is getting more religious, because the poor go for God. James R. Lewis (Tromso), Sean E. Currie (South Florida), Michael P. Oman-Reagan (Memorial): The Religion of the Educated Classes Revisited: New Religions, the Nonreligious, and Educational Levels. Ana Swanson on why women are more religious than men.
Enzo Rossi (Amsterdam): Understanding Religion, Governing Religion: A Realist Perspective. Douglas NeJaime (UCLA) and Reva Siegel (Yale): Conscience Wars in Transnational Perspective: Religious Liberty, Third-Party Harm, and Pluralism. The introduction to Religion, Secularism, and Constitutional Democracy, ed. Jean L. Cohen and Cecile Laborde.
