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religion that is often missed by sociologists focusing primarily on its “secondhand”
manifestations. If we are to bring the spiritual into our explanatory schemes, we must
work toward a more integrated social science building on the insights of psychology and
sociology. A more systematic approach drawing more widely across these two disciplines
especially promises a healthy balance for the study of religion, and one that very much
is needed if we are to make sense of the deep, quite subtle religious and spiritual changes
now occurring.