Religious Devoutness Construed as Pathology: The Myth of Religious Mania
Author(s)
Bartholomew, Robert E.; O’Dea, Julian D.
Abstract
The author argues that an idea, a relationship, can go extinct, just like an animal or a plant. The idea in this case is “nature,” the separate and wild province, the world apart from man to which he adapted, under whose rules he was born and died. The argument that nature is ended is complex, profound objections to it are possible, and in this chapter Bill McKibben details his argument and tries to answer these objections.
