There are generally three ways to study religion in some kind of official capacity. One is the straight secular pursuit of religion that we call “religious studies,” which is the critical study of religion as a function of anthropology, evolutionary biology, history, linguistics, culture, art, and, yes, texts, traditions, and living communities. There i…
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