An anthropological examination of religion reveals that it approaches the subject of human experience 's influence on religion as quite different . Religion can be viewed as a ``proto-science ' in the sense that it serves as a , ``primitive attempt to explain and predict phenomena in the natural world , analogous to modern science (Kirkpatrick , 31 . Although this viewpoint has been hotly contested , the basic precept that religion is interpreted the through the social context as the actions of the believers themselves is...











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