By Shayne LooperMore Content NowIt is common among academics, particularly those whose discipline is anthropology, to think of religion and magic as closely related expressions of the human desire to control one's environment. Indeed, not just closely related but inextricably bound.There is certainly something to be said for that viewpoint. Many religious people display a significant degree of magical thinking, but it is at least possible that their magical thinking is not the [...]
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