Factual Mind-Sets, Communing Sensibilities
by Ed Mooney
As someone who writes quite a bit about religion from philosophical and literary — not to say, religious — points of view, I was not surprised but piqued by a Sunday opinion piece in the New York Times. Here is T. M. Luhrmann, a Stanford anthropologist who writes regularly for the Times on religion. Here she reports on “Faith vs. Facts.” A broad group of scholars is beginning to demonstrate that religious belief and factual belief are indeed different kinds of mental […]
Categories: Ed Mooney, ZiR • Tags: religion, science, The Bible, thinking, Thoreau
