Tag: Superstition
The Enemies of Reason - Slaves to Superstition
Aired on Channel 4 in the UK in August 2007 January 13, 2012.
Video: The Richard Dawkins Foundation
Friday the 13th: watch Richard Dawkins’ 2007 documentary ‘The Enemies of Reason’ expose how superstition “impoverishes our culture”.
Atheist Ugandan works his magic on British humanists
By Matthew Cresswell October 17, 2011.
Print: The Guardian
James ‘Fat Boy’ Onen has been speaking in the UK of his fight against superstition and religion in Uganda
Many Americans Mix Multiple Faiths
Pew Forum December 10, 2009.
Print: The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life
A new Pew survey finds that large numbers of Americans engage in multiple religious practices, for example blending Christianity with Eastern or New Age beliefs such as reincarnation, astrology and the presence of spiritual energy in physical objects. And sizeable minorities of all major U.S. religious groups say they have experienced supernatural phenomena, such as being in touch with the dead or with ghosts.
Take the ladder test
Bruce Hood May 8, 2009.
Print: Guardian.co.uk
Fifty per cent of Britons won’t walk under one. Would you? Do you touch wood? Psychologist Bruce Hood believes even the most rational among us are more superstitious than we’d like to admit.
Anxious London Professionals Flock to Psychics
by Catherine Mayer May 1, 2009.
Print: Time
The U.K. capital’s anxious professionals are flocking to psychics and astrologers. As recession bites, a boom in the occult is on the upwsing.
Science v superstition, not religion
Andrew Brown February 13, 2009.
Guardian.co.uk
We are not going to understand the growth of creationism in modern England so long as we think of it as a primarily Christian phenomenon, or even a religious one.
