One good way to understand religion is to break it apart
To understand what religion means, don’t reach for the dictionary. Better that you take it apart, break it, even throw it away
by Joseph Blankholm
Joseph Blankholm is associate professor of religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of The Secular Paradox: On the Religiosity of the Not Religious (NYU Press, 2022). He lives in Los Angeles.
Written by Joseph Blankholm