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Conspiracy Theories and Human Psychology

The unsettlingly normal cognitive roots of outlandish explanations

September 9, 2021

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Religion, Class, and Denominationalism in the US -- Joerg Rieger

Ever since H. Richard Niebuhr’s book The Social Sources of Denominationalism (1929) there has been evidence that religious affiliation and class status are somehow connected.   In statistics published in a 2006 sociology textbook, this impression i...

November 6, 2014