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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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29 points
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56 points
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83 points
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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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26 points
0 comments6 min readEA link

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32 points
1 comment13 min readEA link
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12 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

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28 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

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23 points
3 comments5 min readEA link
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