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179. The Path of a Seeker — A Conversation with Charles Stang

Faith Matters

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The Study of Religion: A Provocation

I feel as if the study of religion has tried to fit in with the humanities by becoming a kind of secular enterprise of critique. I think it will lose if it competes on that field. The study of religion needs to understand that there is something unique in this enterprise and that people are drawn to it because they sense that the human is more than the humanities are telling us that it is.

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