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Why Religions Matter

Paperback • 2015 • 1. edition

Why Religions Matter

By John Bowker

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What are religions? Why is it important to understand them? One answer is that religions and religious believers are extremely bad news: they are deeply involved in conflicts around the globe; they harm people of whom they disapprove; and they often seem irrational. Another answer claims that they are in fact extremely good news: religious beliefs and practices are universal and so fundamental in human nature that they have led us to great discoveries in our explorations of the cosmos and of who...Show more

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9781107448346

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Cambridge University Press

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2015

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Why Religions Matter

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