SPEECH Podcast (Litres): What Is Religion and How to Create One
Interview for the SPEECH podcast, Litres. Watch: YouTube In this conversation with the SPEECH podcast team, we worked through several questions I consider fundamental to understanding what religion is and what is happening to it today. Can Religion Even Be Defined? Since Friedrich Max Müller, religious studies has never arrived at a single universal definition. Substantive approaches grounded in belief in the “supernatural” frequently fail: in classical Theravada Buddhism or in archaic belief systems, the concept of the supernatural is blurred beyond usefulness. ...