Barbara Herrnstein Smith is the author of Natural Reflections: Human Cognition at the Nexus of Science and Religion.
Those who offer scientific explanations of the pervasiveness of religion in human life are usually not religious themselves, and their explanations are not intended to be compatible with the...
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