Halcyon Identifies

 

Religion is bound for extinction in nine countries where it is already in decline, claim researchers using mathematical models.

The European Values Study is an ongoing, cross-national, and longitudinal survey about basic human values, focusing on life, family, work, religion, politics and society.

 

The newly-launched Charter for Compassion asks people of all religions and moral codes to recognise the core value we share - that we wish to act toward others as we'd like them to act toward us.

As border conflicts account for much of the world's military-industrial spend, it is argued that we need to understand better how people, money, power, religion, culture  interact to change the map of the world, and thereby better anticipate future geopolitical changes.

Supersense looks at why we believe the "unbelievable" and our habit of looking for patternicity (the human tendency to find meaningful patterns in meaningless noise).

Responses - 20/08/07

• Humanism - many believe we now need to emphasise much more reason and enquiry, freedom and responsibility, values, tolerance and compassion.
• Religion - others argue that modern religion is not primarily about God, but is a perfectly rational expression of the human need for the sacred.