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Why Are Most Humans Religious? Professor Robin Dunbar

ROCKING OUR PRIORS

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I think my best guess response is simply going to be that this probably reflects to some extent this big shift in pattern that we've been seeing over the last maybe three decades or so. It's associated with a move away from the big doctrinal regions certainly Christianity less so Islam I think but essentially away from thebig doctrinal religions and more charismatic type religions house church movement all these kinds of things. How long it will last is another interesting question it's answering a different need that people have you know people's needs are constantly changing as there’s the general circumstances and their particular circumstances change which results in if you like but pursue this metaphor more mutations in the way religious things are done.

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