Notes

  1. . Quoted from the Daily Herald (1961).
  2. . Clifford Geertz, “Religion as a Cultural System,” in Anthropological Approaches to the Study cf Religion, ed. M. Banton (London: Tavistock Publications, 1966), p. 4.
  3. . Melford E. Spiro, “Religion: Problems of Definition and Explanation,” in ibid., p. 98.
  4. . Robert N. Bellah, “Religious Evolution,” in Sociology of Religion, ed. R. Robertson (London: Penguin Books, 1969), p. 263.
  5. . Hence, presumably, the attempt to make the study of “religion” more manageable by proposing six‐dimensional (N. Smart, Secular Education and the Logic of Religion [London: Faber & Faber, 19681) or four‐dimensional (K. Ward, The Concept of God [Oxford: Blackwell, 19741) analyses.
  6. . J. W. Bowker, The Sense of God: Sociological, Anthropological and Psychological Approaches to the Origin of the Sense of God (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1973). This book contains more detailed discussion of some of the points raised in this paper.
  7. . See, e.g., W. B.Brown,“Systems, Boundaries and Information Flow,”Academy of Management Journal  9(1966):317ff.; H.Aldrich,“Organizational Boundaries and Interorganizational Conflict,”Human Relations  24(1971):279 ff.
  8. . P. H. Lindsay and D. A. Norman, Human Information Processing: An Introduction to Psychology (New York: Academic Press, 1972).
  9. . Bowker, pp. 53–54.
  10. . J. Z. Young, An Introduction to the Study of Man (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971), p. 524.
  11. . Bowker, p. 65.
  12. . F. Richards, Old Soldier Sahib (London: Faber & Faber, 1965), p. 200.
  13. . William Blake, “Couplets and Fragments XXIII,” in The Poetical Works of William Blake, ed. W. M. Rossetti (London: S. Bell, 1914), p. 198.
  14. . C. C. J. Webb, “On Some Recent Movements in Philosophy,” in Transactions of the Third International Congress for the History of Religions, 2 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1908), 2:422.
  15. . E. Lear, “Mr. and Mrs. Discobbolos,” as quoted in The Golden Staircase, ed. L. Chisholm (London: T. C. & E. C. Jack, 1928), p. 77.
  16. . Quoted from W. H. Auden, A Certain World (London: Faber & Faber, 1970), p. 126.
  17. . The General Confession from the Book of Common Prayer (1662).
  18. . Rom. 7:15.
  19. . Bowker, p. 88.
  20. . William Blake, “The Everlasting Gospel,” in Rossetti (n. 13 above), p. 144.
  21. . On this issue see Bowker, p. 108.
  22. . W. Winwood Reade, The Martyrdom of Man (London: Pemberton Publishing Co., 1968), pp. 188 ff.
  23. . Ibid., p. 437.
  24. . Micah 6:8.
  25. . F. H. George, The Brain as a Computer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1973), p. 75.
  26. . For a fuller discussion of this see Bowker, pp. 131–33.
  27. . A. E. Jones, “Psych(o‐Analysis and Christian Religion,” in Essays in Applied Psycho‐Analysis (London: International Psychoanalytic Library, 195l), 2: 211.