Religion as Make-Believe: A Theory of Belief, Imagination, and Group Identity Chronicle Books ”—Elin Hilderbrand At seventeen

”—Elin Hilderbrand At seventeen

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Religion as Make-Believe: A Theory of Belief, Imagination, and Group Identity Chronicle Books ”—Elin Hilderbrand At seventeenBy: Van Leeuwen, Neil Published by Harvard University Press, 2026 08 18 A masterly new book. New Yorker A major achievement in the study of religious attitudes. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews To understand the nature of religious belief, we must look at how our minds process the world of imagination and make believe. We often assume that religious beliefs are similar in kind to ordinary factual beliefsthat believing in the existence of supernatural