Religion as Make-Believe

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ISBN9780674290334
PublisherHarvard University Press
Price (excl. tax)€48.02
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Drawing on a range of hard evidence, Neil Van Leeuwen shows that the psychological mechanisms underlying religious belief are the same as those enabling imaginative play. He argues that we should therefore understand religious belief as a form of make-believe that people use to define their group identity and express the values sacred to them.