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nobility of spirit

Noelle, David

nonbelief in God

see also agnosticism, agnostics; atheism, atheists

nontheism, nontheists

North, Jay

Nostradamus

Novak, Michael

nuclear bombs

Nun Study

Old Testament

O’Leary, Stephen

Omega Point Theory

On Hallucinations (Brierre de Boismont)

On Human Nature (Wilson)

On the Beach (Shute)

ontological argument (for God’s existence)

Opening of the Fifth and Sixth Seals, … (Dürer painting)

openness (to experience)

and religiosity

oppression-redemption myth, see messiah myth

orientation association area

origin myths

Other Side, The (TV program)

Oubré, Alondra

out-of-body experiences

Oxford Companion to the Bible, The

Pacific islanders

Cargo Cult Ghost Dance

Paine, Thomas

Paiute Indians

Paley, William

Pals, Daniel

Panda Principle

“Panda’s Thumb, The” (Gould)

Pannenberg, Wolfhart

pantheists

paranormal fundamentalism

Parcells, Bill

parental conflict

and belief in God

and religiosity

parents and religiosity

Parents Television Council survey

Pargament, Kenneth

Parsons, Keith

Pascal, Blaise

Pascal’s Wager argument (for God’s existence)

path dependency

pattern-seeking

and millennium

Paul

pea instanton

“Peace of God” movements

Peirce, Charles

Pennock, Robert

Perfection/Ontological argument (for God’s existence)

Persinger, Michael

personality

and beliefs

and religiosity

Peter

Peterson, Michael

petitionary prayer

Pew Research Center survey on belief in God (1997)

philosophical naturalism

Philosophy of Religion, The (Mitchell)

Physics of Immortality, The (Tipler)

physicists

and belief in God

piety

Pine Ridge Reservation (S.D.)

Pinker, Steven

Pittman, Sandy

Pius XII, Pope

Plantinga, Alvin

plants, magical

Plomin, Robert

plutonium

Polichak, James

political beliefs and religiosity

polytheists

Pope, Alexander

positive atheists

Possibility and Necessity argument (for God’s existence)

Postman, The (film)

postmillennial Christians

postmillennial secularists

practical atheists

pragmatism

prayer, petitionary

praying

premillennial Christians

premillennial secularists

Pre-Millennial Syndrome (PMS)

Preskill, John

Prigogine, Ilya

primates

Prime Mover argument (for God’s existence)

Princeton Survey Research Associates survey on prayer

Prisoner’s Dilemma

probability (p) and correlations

problem of emphasis

and contingency

Problem of Evil

Problem of Free Will

Problem of God, The (Angeles)

problem of meaning

and contingency

Problem of Pain, The (Lewis)

Promise Keepers

prophecy failure

Prophet, Elizabeth Claire

Proslogion (St. Anselm)

Protestant Reformation

Protestants’ belief in afterlife

psychic experience

Psychology of Religion (Hood et al.)

Psychology of Religion (Wulff)

Psychology of Religion and Coping, The (Pargament)

Questioning the Millennium (Gould)

QWERTY Principle

radical contingency

Ramachandran, Dr. Vilayanur

Rambsel, Yacov

Rand, Ayn

Rapoport, Anatol

rationalizations

and failed prophecy

Raymo, Chet

readings (by mentalists)

Reagan, Ronald

reason

and faith

and God’s existence

Reason and Religious Belief (Peterson et al.)

Reasons to Believe

reciprocal altruism

Reichenbach, Bruce

reinforcement

religion

anthropology of

as art of the insoluble

biocultural theory of

decline of, and rise of science

economic theories of

evolution of

and God

Middle Ages

models of

philosophy of

purposes of

and science

scientific study of

secular

secularization of

sociology of

supply-side

theory of

as a virus

religiosity

and age

and agreeableness

and brain

and church attendance

and conscientiousness

and education

and environment

and gender

and genes

interest in science and

and openness to experience

and parental conflict

and parents

and personality

and political beliefs

and political liberalism

predictors of

and skeptics

and tender-mindedness

of twins

and upbringing

variables that shape

religious apocalyptic scenarios

religious attribution bias

religious