Neil Van Leeuwen
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Religion as Make-Believe: A Theory of Belief, Imagination, and Group Identity
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“If you have an imaginative credence type relation to a certain story and doctrine, and you rehearse that every Sunday... It's going to inculcate certain emotional tendencies in you.”
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“You play make believe that you're a robber for ten minutes and then it goes away and you're not emotionally changed by that. The persistence with which we play the religious game of make believe, it really does shape our own emotional tendencies.”
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