An interesting article from Ed Yong's "Not Exactly Rocket Science" blog.

Ed looks at Jeremy Ginges research attempting to study the relationship of religion and "suicide attacks." The link is hard to miss but the reason has been unclear. Does religious devotion of some particular sort motivate the extreme, as Richard Dawkins for example likes to (often simplistically) claim, or is the motivation somewhere in the social nature of religon? Ginges seems to find more of the latter. I tend to agree with him.

http://scienceblogs.com/notrocketsci...s_devotion.php