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Patrick McNamara: How Belief Systems Work

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Details: Published: 13 December 2012; Written by Connor Wood; Hits: 2873

Closer to Truth is a PBS television program hosted by Robert Lawrence Kuhn that focuses on the big questions of consciousness, the nature of the cosmos, and God. Recently, Dr. Patrick McNamara, co-founding director of the Institute for the Biocultural Study of Religion, was interviewed for Closer to Truth on how belief systems work. See the video here.

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