Greatest predictors of suicide bombings, Atran concludes, is not religion but group dynamics: " small-group dynamics involving friends and family that form the diaspora cell of brotherhood and camaraderie on which the rising tide of martyrdom actions is based ".

Boyer builds on the ideas of cognitive anthropologists Dan Sperber and Scott Atran, who first argued that religious cognition represents a by-product of various evolutionary adaptations, including folk psychology, and purposeful violations of innate expectations about how the world is constructed ( for example, bodiless beings with thoughts and emotions ) that make religious cognitions striking and memorable.

Scott Atran, Pascal Boyer ) but unlike them Hardy did not wish to be reductionist, seeing religious awareness as having evolved in response to a genuine dimension of reality.

Anthropologists Dan Sperber, Edwin Hutchins, Scott Atran, Pascal Boyer and Joseph Henrich have been involved in collaborative projects with cognitive and social psychologists, political scientists and evolutionary biologists in attempts to develop general theories of culture formation, religion and political association.

Prominent researchers in evolutionary psychology and anthropology, including Scott Atran, Dan Sperber, Pascal Boyer, John Tooby and others, argue the possibility of incompatibility between modularity of mind and memetics.

* Atran, S., In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion, New York, Oxford University Press, 2002.

" The Edge Foundation presented a criticism of Davies ' article written by Jerry Coyne, Nathan Myhrvold, Lawrence Krauss, Scott Atran, Sean Carroll, Jeremy Bernstein, PZ Myers, Lee Smolin, John Horgan, Alan Sokal and a response by Davies beginning I was dismayed at how many of my detractors completely misunderstood what I had written.

Scholar Scott Atran, research director and involved in NATO group studying suicide terrorism, points out that there is no single root cause of terrorism.

* Bailenson, JN, MS Shum, S Atran, DL Medin, JD Coley ( 2002 ) A bird's eye view: biological categorization and reasoning within and across cultures.

* Medin, Douglas L., and Scott Atran, eds.

* Scott Atran ( 1999 ) Folkbiology ( PDF ), in Robert Wilson and Frank Keil, Ed.

This article discusses facts regarding communication in Belize.

He discusses the methods of acquiring knowledge, concluding that practical knowledge, though teachable, cannot be truly mastered without experience ; that only informational knowledge can be gained by one whose understanding equals the author's ; that comprehension ( insight ) is best learned from who first achieved said understanding — an " original communication ".

Unlimited Power, published in 1987, discusses the topics of health and energy, overcoming fears, persuasive communication, and enhancing relationships.

This article discusses eyes and facial expressions and the effect they have on interpersonal communication.

As Stotz discusses the situation with Morgus via holographic communication en route, Morgus sees the Doctor still alive, and fearing deception, kills the President of Androzani Major and makes his own plans to travel to Androzani Minor to put the situation right himself.

The book discusses some of the problems of trying to maintain an interstellar trading culture without access to superluminal travel or to superluminal communication.

In the first volume the author discusses the land and the people, the pre-historic communication system in the Northern Areas, the need for having an all weather road link with Gilgit and the construction of Indus Valley Road.

McQuail's next book, Mass Communication Theory, discusses in greater detail the mass communication concept.

" In Chapter 10, McQuail discusses the future of mass communication and states that it is either socially fragmenting or unifying.

In this essay, he discusses the impact of the Internet on the environment, education, and increased communication between people.

To this end, he first discusses finite state grammar, a communication theoretic model based on a conception of language as a Markov process.

Sarris discusses Film in the context of his section on the film career of Buster Keaton, writing that: " Even Samuel Beckett contributed to the desecration of the Keaton mask by involving the actor of absurdity before its time in a dreary exercise called Film, the most pretentious title in all cinema.

This article discusses several ways of dating Creation, many involving analyzing scriptures and other ancient texts.

Doris ( 2002 ) discusses the way in which social psychological experiments --- such as the Stanford Prison Experiments involving the idea of situationism --- call into question a key component in virtue ethics: the idea that individuals have a single, environment-independent moral character.

This article discusses the history of these vowels in various dialects of English, focusing in particular on phonemic splits and mergers involving these sounds.

The book discusses key episodes of 20th-century espionage and cryptology involving the Zimmermann telegram ; Enigma decryption and " Ultra "; the Battle of the Atlantic ; Erwin Rommel ; the Colossus computer ; Frank Rowlett and Japan's Purple cipher ; Allied Operation Overlord deceptions ; World War II spies and spy organizations ; Rudolf Roessler and the Lucy Spy Ring ; Takeo Yoshikawa and Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor ; Joseph J. Rochefort and the Battle of Midway ; Richard Sorge ; Donald Maclean ; Klaus Fuchs ; Venona ; Oleg Penkovsky ; and Ryszard Kukliński.

In this book Heschel discusses the nature of religious thought, how thought becomes faith, and how faith creates responses in the believer.

Confucianism discusses elements of the afterlife and views concerning Heaven, but it is relatively unconcerned with some spiritual matters often considered essential to religious thought, such as the nature of souls.

The Kitáb-i-Aqdas also discusses the establishment of Bahá ' í administrative institutions, Bahá ' í religious practices, laws of personal status, criminal law, ethical exhortations, social principles, miscellaneous laws and abrogations, and prophecies.

As an example, John D. Gottsch discusses the transmission, mutation and selection of religious memeplexes and the theistic memes contained.

In the tradition of its leading thinkers Lao Tzu and Zhuangzi, Taoism is comparable with Pantheism, as The Tao is always spoken of with profound religious reverence and respect, similar to the way that Pantheism discusses the " divinity " of the Universe.

" Monroe burned much of his correspondence with his wife, and no letters survive in which he discusses his religious beliefs ; nor did his friends, family or associates write about his beliefs.

Eileen Barker discusses the tendency for new religious movements to have founders or leaders who wield considerable charismatic authority and are believed to have special powers or knowledge.

The Spirituality of Avalon discusses the religious aspects of the Avalon series and gives essential insights into a modern Western understanding of spirituality and its construction in epic fantasy fiction.

In December 2010, Adel allegedly sent a series of 5 letters to Abu Walid al Masri, which discusses the War in Afghanistan, criticises religious failings of the mujahidin and hypocrisy of Islamic scholars and the failure of the Jihadist movement to learn from previous mistakes.

After an opening eulogy, purposefully complimentary but devoid of extravagant panegyric, he discusses the army, praising the Khorasanis in Iraq but suggesting that, as an ethnically mixed body exposed to heterodox thinking, they should be taught only the tenets of a clear, concise religious code issued by the caliph.

In it, she discusses her Catholic upbringing, early religious ideology, and the life events and internal search that led her to believe that the universe can function on its own without a deity to preside over it, finally becoming an atheist.

It is also a crucial subject for one who is interested in comparative religious studies for it goes beyond discussing the five principles in themselves and discusses issues related to them.

* Radio Free Europe discusses religious tension in Dagestan

* A Free and Asymmetric Rhythm (« О свободном и несимметричном ритме ») ( this is a work which examines and discusses Old Slavonic religious chants ) ( 1858 )

Both the personal and the national sentiments are treated from a deep religious viewpoint that discusses existentialism The spiritual crisis in Il-Jien u lil hinn Minnu is analyzed in universal human terms that illuminate man's existence and insist on the inexplicability of the relations between God and man, except for the latter's absolute acceptance of the formers hidden power.

This attitude is reflected in the ninth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica ( 1876 ) which discusses the practice as a religious rite among Jews, Moslems, the ancient Egyptians and tribal peoples in various parts of the world.

He often publicly discusses ethical issues, such as: racism, political and religious intolerance, the process of secularisation, as well as the process of European expansion and integration.

An Nur-The Light is a Muslim religious programme that airs on SABC 1 on Sunday mornings and interfaith programme Spirit Sundae features Muslim event coverage, personal profiles and discusses issues pertaining to the community.

Weber discusses the organisation of the early confederacy, the unique qualities of Israelite relations to the God of Israel, influence of foreign cults, types of religious ecstasy and the struggle of the priests against ecstasy and idol worship.

The second volume covers the internal organisation, such as the labor, farm work, and healthcare regimes, in more detail, and also discusses cultural and religious life.

A short segment of an interview with Masters was used in a PBS television documentary entitled Death In America, in which Masters discusses social, cultural and religious attitudes relating to how Americans dealt and currently deal with illness and death throughout American history.