Religion for Realists

More than half a century ago, sociologist J. Milton Yinger remarked about religion, "e;There are few major subjects about which men know so little, yet feel so certain."e; Samuel L. Perry says that Yinger had it right. Americans--and Westerners more generally--neglect the scientific study of religion, and we do so at our peril. In Religion for Realists, Perry argues that we need the scientific s...