believers

Something about this article makes me wonder. Reading from paragraph to paragraph, I cannot find the connections that I need to make sense of it. The information they give has a doomsday ring to it. Reading the article as someone from the US I have no way to tell if the events they report are...

Study Shows Religion may keep believers from losing their cool [March 5th, 2009 by Charles Lewis, National Post Source: www.nationalpost.com] Religion may or may not be the opiate of the masses but a new study says it may keep believers from losing their cool when things go wrong. "These...

How were the darker corners of religious history handled (violence, ostracizement, etc)? How does the critical study of religion impact believers, and how should intstructors manage this: For instance, it is always a dicy issue to raise questions about a faith's own claims about its history...