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TagLast edit: 15 Jan 2022 18:32 UTC by Pablo

The religion tag covers posts about the intersection between religion and effective altruism.

Further reading

Crimmins, James E. (2013) Religious utilitarians, in James E. Crimmins (ed.) The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Utilitarianism, London: Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 475–478.

Pieters, Timo (2021) Doing good better: Combining ‘effective altruism’ and Buddhist ethics, European Academy on Religion and Society, April 22.

Roser, Dominic, Stefan Riedener & Markus Huppenbauer (eds.) (2022) Effective Altruism and Religion: Synergies, Tensions, Dialogue, Baden-Baden: Nomos.

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115 points
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1 point
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idea2124 Aug 2025 3:33 UTC
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4 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

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7 points
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9 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

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31 points
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96 points
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29 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

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18 points
17 comments2 min readEA link

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83 points
9 comments10 min readEA link

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62 points
29 comments5 min readEA link

EA crit­i­cism: not yet a religion

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10 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

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53 points
5 comments1 min readEA link
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9 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

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0 comments1 min readEA link
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39 points
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65 points
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32 points
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23 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

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19 points
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0 points
0 comments11 min readEA link

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1 comment1 min readEA link

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28 points
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69 points
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