Please use the space below to provide answers for the questions below — as guided by the professor’s individual comments to you.
Some of you, based on your in-class responses to these same questions, may have to only answer a couple of the questions. However, if you were not able to provide adequate answers in class, you can expect that you will need to provide detailed responses here.
Each question response here should be at least 150 words. Of course, your response should be based on the assigned materials posted on Canvas and our class lectures, not any other outside research (i.e., don’t go running to a dictionary … or your favorite AI assistant). Do your best. Good luck!
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1. Daniel Pals issues an important caution about running to a dictionary for a definition of religion. Defining, he claims, is linked to explaining. What does he mean by that? And why is it important?
2. What is the important contrast Pals draws between substantive and functional theories of religion?
3. How does Tim Crane respond to the God Hypothesis? How is his response related to his definition of religion? How are the pessimist and optimist versions of atheism related? Which does Crane favor? Explain his reasoning.
4. According to Crane, what is “religious impulse”? How is it different from “religious temperament”?
Attached Files (PDF/DOCX): Pals Introduction.pdf, Religion and The Atheist Point of View – Tim Crane.pdf
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