This article by Glenn Greenwald in The Guardian examines whether atheism is being used as a rouse to promote Islamophobia and militarism in the US.

This March 24, 2013, piece in Salon is excerpted from The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates by Frans de Waal and discusses the growing divide between religious and non-religious people.

Listen to a CNN Radio story from March 28, 2013, about the 50th anniversary of the American Atheists.

Keishin Inaba, associate professor of human sciences at Osaka University in Japan, has a website on altruism. He is author of Altruism in New Religious Movements: The Jesus Army and the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order in Britain, which examines whether Christianity and Buddhism change people’s attitudes and behavior towards altruism. He also edited The Practice of […]

Psychology professor Richard Ebstein at National University of Singapore was senior author of the altruism gene study, which showed that the dopamine gene plays a role in prosocial behavior. The study was published in Molecular Psychiatry in January 2005.

Read a seminal article by Allan Luks in the October 1988 Psychology Today that describes the “helper’s high” – a sense of calm and enhanced self-worth – observed in a study of more than 1,700 women involved regularly in helping others. Altruism functions like exercise but has some advantages over it, Luks suggests.

Read a 2003 Boston Globe article on studies linking altruism to better health and stress reduction.

Read an October 2004 Science & Theology News article on evolutionary theory and altruism.