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  • BR8) “Breaking the Spell” Book Review

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    Breaking the Spell by Dan Dennett.  3/5 rating. Book #79 in 2019. Read May 28, 2019. This book lays out the importance of evaluating religions in ways as a natural institution that we would investigate other ideas (through psychology, linguistics, biology, etc.). “Breaking the Spell” for more objective ways of studying religion would likely allow…

  • 34) May – June 2019 Books Read

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    Below are the 20 books I read in May and June of 2019. Since I started my 49 day trip at the very end of May, my June books read really fell off, but there’s still a fair share here. The Last Full Measure (4) – 5/1/19        “Lee nodded, said, ‘It is a ghastly thing…that…