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 James, William. 1994 [1902]. The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature. New York: Modern Library.
+Luhrmann, T. M., Howard Nusbaum, and Ronald Thisted. 2010. “The Absorption Hypothesis: Learning to Hear God in Evangelical Christianity.” American Anthropologist 112 (1): 66–78. doi:10.1111/j.1548-1433.2009.01197.x.
+## What do the Twelve Tribes' neighbors think about them?
+What do the neighbors of Peppercorn Farm in Picton think about the Twelve Tribes?
+Hint: They don't think "nothing."
 ## Is there any truth to religion and religious belief? ##
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 c) We've ducked the issue.
+## A velvet rope
+{{ :2667:1222487.jpg |Still from "Lost Our Lisa." The Simpsons (1998).}}
+## The limits of social science ##
+Social scientific approaches to religion can only look at concrete, observable, empirical facts about people's behavior.
+This means that social scientific explanations are always on the outside looking in.
-## What is religion? ##
+It also means that social scientific explanations assume that, being from an outsider's position, they possess a unique claim to being true. The **observed** has beliefs, rituals, etc. The **observers** don't.
-Let's think about how we might define religion. Write your own working
+In other words, we are looking at religion as culture.
-definition of religion.
 ## William James ##