Notes
- . 1. A positive answer to these questions is suggested by Melford E. Spiro in his “Religion and the Irrational,” in Proceedings of the 1964 Annual Spring Meeting of the American Ethnological Society (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1964). On p. 112 he says: “Religious and scientific beliefs alike explain what is otherwise inexplicable; they structure what is otherwise unstructured; they provide answers for what is otherwise imponderable. But religious beliefs are held not merely from a craving to satisfy intellectual needs, but also from a craving to satisfy emotional needs.”