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A Note on these Resources
The following list contains links to webpages, videos, and other internet resources. These links are roughly grouped into weeks corresponding to the Detailed Reading Schedule. This list is only irregularly maintained.
Week 1 - Animal Religions?
- Animal Religion
- Chimpanzee Rock Shrines
- Chimpanzee religion?
- Magpie Funeral
- Elephants mourning
- Elephants mourning
Week 1 - History of World Religions
- The Evolution of World Religions - Big Chart
- Gobekli Tepe - Ancient religious site in Turkey
- Stonehenge
Week 1 - Religious Change
- 2013 - ARIS College Student Survey
- 2015 - Pew Forum Landscape
- 2015 - Rise of the Nones
- 2016 - Religion Declining Secularism Surging
- 2016 - PRRI - Exodus
- 2017 - The retreat from religion is accelerating
Week 1 - Religion Websites
- Google Scholar
- Religion Dispatches
- Patheos
- Religion News Service
- Religious Tolerance (Old but still valuable.)
Week 2 - Ancient Polytheisms
- The Olympic Gods and Goddesses
- Yoruba Polytheism
- Norse Polytheism
- The Cthulhu Mythos
Week 3 - Plato / Stoicism
- Plato - Cosmological Argument - Handout
- Stoicism
- Cicero Henological Arg - Handout
- Cicero Design Argument - Handout
- The Antikythera Mechanism
Week 4 - Neoplatonism
Week 5 - The Man in the Sky
- God - Family Guy
- God - Creation (Crumb)
- God - Sun & Moon 1 (Crumb)
- God - Sun & Moon 2 (Crumb)
- God - Adam & Eve (Crumb)
- God - Sistine Chapel (Michaelangelo)
- The Matrix - The Architect
- Mormon God
Week 5 - Medieval
- Asherah - Website
- The Christa Project
- Christa
- Cristo Negro
- Anselm - Henological Argument - Handout
- Kurzweil - Omega Point - Handout
Week 5 - Ontological Argument
- Ontological Argument - Video Part 1
- Ontological Argument - Video Part 2
- Anselm - Proslogion - Handout
- Ontological Argument - Handout
Week 7 - First Cause Arguments
- Cosmological Argument Video Part 1
- Cosmological Argument - Video Part 2
- First Cause Args - Handout
Week 9 - Organic Design Arguments
- Animation Inner Life of a Cell
- Design Argument - Video Part 1
- Design Argument - Video Part 2
- Evolution of Cornets
- Evolution of Computers
- Article on Design Arguments
- Organic Design Args - Handout
- Evolution - Handout
Week 10 - The Game of Life
- Video: Introducing the Game of Life
- Videos: More videos on the Game of Life
- Conway's Game of Life - Handout
- Finely Tuning the Game of Life - Handout
Week 10 - The Divine Computer (Simulated Universe)
- The Matrix
- The Matrix - The Architect
- Is the universe a computer?
- The simulation hypothesis
- Created Computed Universe
- The Universe is a Computer Simulation
- How to simulate the universe on your laptop
Week 10 - Omega Point
- The Omega Point (Jason Silva)
- The Six Epochs of Evolution
- The Singularity is God
- Omega Point Quotes - Handout
Week 11 - Modal Polytheism
- Big Polytheism
- A naturalistic cosmological argument
- The evolution of natural gods
- Multiple Universes
Week 12 - Wicca & Neopaganism
- Wicca
- Sallustius - On the Gods & the World
- Religions of Energy - Wicca - Handout
- Wicca Videos
- Falcon Circle - US Air Force Academy
- Falcon Circle - Picture
- Wicca Iowa Legislature
- Atheopaganism
- Asatru & Heathenry
- Pagan Music
Week 13 - Anzaldua "Now let us shift..."
Week 13 - African Mask Dances
- African Mask Dance (Winiama)
- African Mask Dance (Zaouli)
- Dogon Mask Dance
- Dogon Mask Dance
- Yoruba Religion
Week 14 - Ayahuasca Religion
- Unaio do Vegetal
- Santo Daime
- Ayahuasca: Vine of the Soul
- Ayahuasca: Vine of the Soul - Movie
- Sexual Abuse at Ayahuasca Retreats
- Ayahuasca - New Yorker article
- NYT: Ayahuasca A Strong Cup of Tea
- Alex Grey - Chapel of Sacred Mirrors
Week 15 - Spiritual Atheism
Week 15 - Pastafarianism
Week 15 - New Age
Week 16 - Modern Stoicism
- Stoicism
- Modern Stoicism